Jennifer Egan Quotes
Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.
Jennifer Egan
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
Ed Bradley
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.
Jacqueline Bisset
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If we live a life full of regret, full of things we haven't done, if we've lived an unfulfilled life, when death comes along, it's a lot worse. I think it's true for all of us.
Irvin D. Yalom
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I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
Kurt Elling
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
Ellen Swallow Richards
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Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.
Jennifer Egan