Jennifer Egan Quotes
I love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them. They're the way I track the passage of time.Jennifer Egan
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
Gail Collins -
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
Carice van Houten -
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Salman Rushdie -
I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
Pat Robertson -
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie -
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
Ira Glass
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
Nate Powell -
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
Tasha Smith -
Mister Cee's a legend, man.
Fat Joe -
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
Jackie Cooper -
While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
Wendy Kopp
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
Gavin Andresen -
I'm not a god - I do bad things.
Jackie Chan -
All our wives are experimental psychologists.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young -
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
Taylor Hackford
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Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'
Alex Berenson -
I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.
Janet Malcolm -
Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.
Alessandra Mastronardi -
WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.
Jesse Ventura -
Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion.
Eric Wareheim -
I love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them. They're the way I track the passage of time.
Jennifer Egan