Jennifer Egan Quotes
Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I'm not hungry for, I won't enjoy it, but if I wait until I have a real appetite for something, I'll devour it.
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I'm a slow starter.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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We have a nice veteran team. To have seven seniors is outstanding and it's a mix that has been running since freshman year. They were thrown into the fire early and have come along nicely.
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.
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I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
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Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I'm not hungry for, I won't enjoy it, but if I wait until I have a real appetite for something, I'll devour it.
