Jennifer Egan Quotes

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

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• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• I don't know if I have a favorite color.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Know
  • Color
  • Favorite

• I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Change

• It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Game
  • Want
  • Change

• When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Hurt

• My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Different
  • Literature
  • Humor

• I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Attention

• Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Few

• I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Goals

• It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature

• It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to complain. I am grateful and happy to be alive, and still be able to continue with my work, if only just. My work seems to me more important than ever.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Work
  • Important
  • Long

• Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Die

• The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Free
  • Wise

• Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

  

  Mark Millar
  • American

• I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Believe
  • Control

• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

  

  Max Planck
  • Mind
  • Intelligent
  • Matrix

• We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • People
  • World

• I believe that you should do what you know how to do best.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Believe

• By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.

  

  John McLaughlin
  • Diamond

• When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. We have a lot of domestic enemies of - of the Constitution, those who want to pervert it, those who want to change it.

  

  Paul Broun
  • Marine

• I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They are such lovely girls. I have watched their careers blossom, which I am really happy for. I grew up with Ashley Tisdale; we used to both live in Valencia, so we used to hang out back in the day.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

  

  Jennifer Egan