Jennifer Egan Quotes
I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Being evil is easy.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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Honestly, I feel like everything in life happens for a reason, and my son has been the greatest gift that God has given me in my life and been the most game-changing thing that's happened to my life, in a necessary way.
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Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.
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The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
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I love people. I hate to be by myself.
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'In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.'-Learning To Sing, Page 240
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I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.
