Jennifer Egan Quotes

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

Jennifer Egan

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The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Robert H. Goddard

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I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you.

Michael Gambon

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With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

Stephen Lang

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Everybody grows in their own way.

Robbie Robertson

WayOwnGrowsEverybody

We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, but it doesn't have to take over your whole world.

Rony Abovitz

PeopleWorldBackWantRelationships

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

Dick York

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I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

Chris O'Dowd

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For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.

Brit Morin

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

William Temple

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If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

Paula Creamer

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The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market.

Sebastian Thrun

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