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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They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
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It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you know, if you look at the original picture where people addressed it, I was trying to sit behind the coolers and out of the way, 'cause I didn't want to interrupt anybody else's right to stand and hold attention to the flag.
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When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.
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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.