Jennifer Egan Quotes
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
Jennifer Egan
Quotes to Explore
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Ian Mckellen
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
Iris Apfel
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
Vaclav Havel
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I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who... A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.
Michel Gondry
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I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.
Brooke Fraser
Hillsong Worship
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Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.
Marine Le Pen
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I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.
David Tudor
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If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
Jennifer Egan
