Jennifer Egan Quotes
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only not work for the next project, they will ruin it.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.
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I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.
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If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
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When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.
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Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only not work for the next project, they will ruin it.
