Jennifer Egan Quotes
It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.
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Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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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.
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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.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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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.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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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.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
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If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
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I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.
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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.
