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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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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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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The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.
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We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.
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I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.
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With my band, I feel comfortable anywhere in the world.
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I grew up a skinny Asian kid who was often ignored or picked on. It stuck with me and branded my soul. As I grew up, I tried to stick up for whoever seemed excluded or marginalized.
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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.
