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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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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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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I've been everywhere man. I'm from L.A., though.
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Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
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The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.
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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.
