Jennifer Egan Quotes
Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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I always drive like a madman.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have.
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War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
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You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.
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Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.
