Jennifer Egan Quotes

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

Jennifer Egan

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• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Everything

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
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• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Thought

• Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
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• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Walking
  • Irish

• Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • You
  • Living
  • Realize

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
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• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Men
  • Fear

• I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Believe
  • Church

• I don't look at it as Hollywood or Bollywood, but, of course, my roots are here, and at the end of the day, it's about your roots. You can't take India out of me.

  

  Deepika Padukone

• I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

  

  Ellen Forney
  • Crazy

• Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

  

  David Brinkley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Brain