Jennifer Egan Quotes
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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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.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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I look Asian. I need to go to Japan.
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My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
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I thought I sounded a little like Eartha Kitt for a long time, and I didn't like it.
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It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.
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Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.
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I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.
