Jennifer Egan Quotes
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.Jennifer Egan
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan -
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust -
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo -
I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
Oksana Baiul -
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz -
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
Vanessa Kerry
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
Warren Spector -
The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
Forest Whitaker -
It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
Carine Roitfeld -
When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
Kate Williams -
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
Fedor Emelianenko
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
Oliver Stone -
I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
Becky Lynch -
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
Dan Stevens -
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken -
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Karl A. Menninger -
I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
Quincy Jones
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The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.
C. H. Dodd -
I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.
Cynthia Nixon -
When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a poet writer did everything all at once. I would write poetry, and while writing poetry I would also write work in the world - if I could get into the world.
W. S. Di Piero -
Noble be man, helpful and good!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The populists themselves are dangerous, but they are far more dangerous when the traditional, classic parties adopt their harmful proposals.
Jean-Claude Juncker -
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.
Jennifer Egan