Jennifer Egan Quotes
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
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People dancing all in the streetSee the rhythm all in their feetLife is good, wild and sweet.Let the music play on (play on, play on)Feel it in your heartAnd feel it in your soulLet the music take control.
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I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.
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Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.
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I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.
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I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.
