Jennifer Egan Quotes
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
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The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
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The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
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We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
