Jennifer Egan Quotes
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
Jennifer Egan
Quotes to Explore
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
D. A. Pennebaker
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.
Ophelia Lovibond
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
Ida Lupino
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
Tariq Ali
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I think comedy has to come from your authentic point of view.
Chelsea Handler
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As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
Dustin Yellin
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I would love to work with Joss Whedon again.
Alan Tudyk
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Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.
Donald Johanson
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Nobody likes feeling like an outsider, so it's intimidating for young girls to give STEM a try when they look into STEM clubs/classes and see a room full of boys.
Emily Calandrelli
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I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
Jennifer Egan