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.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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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.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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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.
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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.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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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.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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You have to go where the good writing is.
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Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it's the truth of who you are.
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David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.
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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.
