Jennifer Egan Quotes
It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.
Jennifer Egan
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Valerie Plame
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
Rachael Harris
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
Hans Vestberg
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Van Morrison
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
Edmund White
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.
Anthony Fauci
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I think if we did 'Stargate' right, the fans would like it, and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they'll reject it. As they should.
Dean Devlin
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It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed. After hearing this, an astronaut said, 'Wait. You mean that wasn't lemon Tang?'
Conan O'Brien
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I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.
Joe Johnston
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It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.
Jennifer Egan