Jennifer Egan Quotes
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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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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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.
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In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.
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When you're not winning, you're losing.
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I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.
