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.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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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.
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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.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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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.
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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.
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.
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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.
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We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
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I believe that you should do what you know how to do best.
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I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
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It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
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What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
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You can't appeal to us through our wombs, we're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it.
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I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
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The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
