Jennifer Egan Quotes
Sometimes I forget I have children, which is very strange. I feel guilty about it, as if my inattention will cause something to happen to them, even when I'm not responsible for them - that God will punish me.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.
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Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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One may well use one’s head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down.
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The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
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The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.
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I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Sometimes I forget I have children, which is very strange. I feel guilty about it, as if my inattention will cause something to happen to them, even when I'm not responsible for them - that God will punish me.
