Jennifer Egan Quotes

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm not sure it is now.

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• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

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• Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

  

  Olivia Holt
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• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  

  Maimonides
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• I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

  

  Jack Kelley
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• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
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• From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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• I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.

  

  Veronica Roth
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• I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
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• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
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• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
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• I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects.

  

  Patrick Henry
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• The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend - not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along - had left me.

  

  Alicia Vikander
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• I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm not sure it is now.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Help
  • Powerful