Jennifer Egan Quotes
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.
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I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.
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Halftime is not about beating yourself up for what you did not do, but for coming to terms with your failures and recognizing that you live under grace.
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I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.
