Jennifer Egan Quotes
Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
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I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do.
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I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.
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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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In the same way that people can drive each other mad, the company of people, and being understood by people, can also heal us.
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Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.
