Jennifer Egan Quotes
I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.
Jennifer Egan
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
Kate Voegele
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
Imelda May
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
Washed Out
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
Karen Gillan
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Barack Obama
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
Tamara Ecclestone
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
Florynce Kennedy
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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What I will say - one thing that is attractive about getting a real film made within the studio system is that studio systems, with their marketing and distribution, have real power.
Bennett Miller
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And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.
Maria Semple
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
Caitlin Fitzgerald
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I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.
Steve Jobs
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I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.
Jennifer Egan
