Jennifer Egan Quotes
I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women.
Quotes to Explore
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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I guess I've always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what's happening around them.
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Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women.
