Jennifer Egan Quotes
But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.
Jennifer Egan
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Time stays, we go.
H. L. Mencken
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
Abbie Cornish
China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
Jack Ma
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
Vernor Vinge
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
Natalie Martinez
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
R. A. Salvatore
When in doubt, do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
Bayard Taylor
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.
Kay Cannon
Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.
Cyril Connolly
If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.
Brad Pitt
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
Sade Adu
Luckily, now I think that I attract people that are really nice, like my fans, who are really lovely people. They are really encouraging, and they help other people out as well, which, it's really great.
Anne-Marie
But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.
Jennifer Egan
