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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You breathe fast when you're scared.
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I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel -
When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.
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I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!
