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.

Jennifer Egan

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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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • True
  • Best
  • Succeed

• 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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  • Law
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• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Me

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Think
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Dream
  • Parents
  • Best

• Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Violence

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• 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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  • Up
  • Great
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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.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • God
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• I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

  

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  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands previously, I guess I mainly deferred to them a lot in terms of who was singing the bulk of the songs.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Singers
  • Dominant

• God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • God
  • Made
  • River

• There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • People
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Him

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • God
  • Children
  • Guilty