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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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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'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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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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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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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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No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
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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.
