Jennifer Egan Quotes
To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.
Jennifer Egan
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes
I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
Lasse Hallstrom
I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
A. Philip Randolph
I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
Ed Weeks
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
Ted Turner
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'Rourke
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky
Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
Octavia Spencer
I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.
Annabelle Selldorf
The 'Law & Order' audition was so last-minute. I was already in a shabby suit, the journey was a complete disaster, my train stopped early, it was raining, and I had to show the cabbie the way... I rushed in apologising, gave this terrible reading, and ended up telling my whole journey to them. I must have bored them to tears.
Bradley Walsh
Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
Patsy Cline
Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
Hannah Arendt
To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.
Jennifer Egan
