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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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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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.
Natalia Makarova
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
E. W. Howe
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I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
Taylor Momsen
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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
Sam Neill
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What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
Barry Diller
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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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I'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with on 'Austin & Ally;' the cast and crew are like my family now. We have so much fun, and I'm so happy they're in my life!
Laura Marano
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The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
R. J. Cutler
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Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.
Amy Lowell
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'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
Jack Vance
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I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.
Alice Oswald
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But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.
Barack Obama
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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
