Jennifer Egan Quotes
Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
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I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
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You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.
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Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.
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All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
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The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
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Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.
