Jennifer Egan Quotes
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.
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I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.
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There was a when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.
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But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts.She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers,Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and findThat what you're lookin' for has been here the whole time.If you could see that I'm the one who understands you,Been here all along so why can't you see?You belong with me;You belong with me.
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Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.
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I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.
