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 final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the Stones. Dream on.
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I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.
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All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
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My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.
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Whatever is common to children of a given age is set up as the fundamental character of that age. The fact that three-year-old children are quite often negative is considered evidence that negativism is inherent in the nature of three-year-olds, and the concept of a negative age or stage is then regarded as an explanation for the appearance of negativism.
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Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.
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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.
