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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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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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Do something for yourself today that you will thank yourself for tomorrow.
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... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
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When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.
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In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
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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.
