Jennifer Egan Quotes
The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.
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As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care about what you do, and give them really cool interactive experiences to make them feel appreciated.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
