Jennifer Egan Quotes
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
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Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.
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What they critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
