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Jennifer Egan Quotes

There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1962

Topics

Career Find Seem Mining Opposite

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.

Work Business Be Kind Trust Yourself

Finn is just a stormtrooper, and stormtroopers are no longer clones, so they are bred from birth to fight. He's not too sure about it, so he escapes and meets Rey and Poe and BB8, and their stories kind of mesh together, and they go on a major adventure.

Together Adventure Fight Go Kind He

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

Busy You Fast Go Actor Way

I'm not worried about state parks. I'm worried about people who can't be treated because they have schizophrenia or other mental illnesses out there. I'm worried about people.

Robert J. Bentley

People Out Mental Schizophrenia Who

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

Writing Tough Just Directing Too

As soon as the show is over, I always think, 'How will the woman I design for go forward?' It's so important to start quickly because I can't let her get away.

Woman Start Forward Think Design Go

When I did 'Think Like A Man', I would run into people who were acting like it was the first thing I'd ever done. I was at the premiere of 'Think Like A Man,' and people were coming up to me, like, 'Man, you're going to get work after this, bruh.'

Work Man People Me Think Acting

Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.

Woman People Say Searching Film

I don't like closed systems.

Like Closed Systems

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

Love Sunlight Touch Seems Essential

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

Funny Angry Tired Writing World Out

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Power Difference Up Being Between

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