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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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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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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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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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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Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I have no complaints about my childhood.
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When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
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I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.
