Jennifer Egan Quotes
I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.
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When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.
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I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!
