Jennifer Egan Quotes
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
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From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Sculpture, to me, is primitive, religious, passionate, and magical.
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You are the man newly arrivingat history’s worm-ravaged door,the woman whose shadows are salvesupon the bleeding breasts of the earth,the infant whose heartbeatfloods every harp in Paradise.
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I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.
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I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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I'm lucky my parents travel with me.
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I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film.
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I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don't think most people know about me.
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I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days.
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Along with loving the script, the reason I did 'Aeon Flux' was because I needed the job, and I couldn't find $5 million to make a movie independently - after making a fairly successful movie for a million dollars.
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Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
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That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
