Jennifer Egan Quotes
When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
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It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
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I'd love to write a book and dabble in TV a little more - but only if it's right. I'm not going to go out there and beg anyone for a job.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.
