Jennifer Egan Quotes
My mom used to say that if someone woke her up in the middle of the night and asked how old she was, she'd answer 27. Hearing her, I'd think, 'That's ridiculous; your job as my mom is to be old.'
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
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I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.
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When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
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I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.
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My mom used to say that if someone woke her up in the middle of the night and asked how old she was, she'd answer 27. Hearing her, I'd think, 'That's ridiculous; your job as my mom is to be old.'
