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Jennifer Egan Quotes

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

Jennifer Egan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Myself Training Person Go Out Up

When Trump says no one loves women more than he does, what exactly is he referring to? Fantasizing about them on the 'Access Hollywood' bus? Placing them only in professional roles that answer to him?

Mel Robbins

Women Professional Hollywood More He

I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

Robert Gober

Health Man America Gay Living Worst

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

Matthew Macfadyen

Hate Me Think Play Years Would

The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported me since I was 16 and believed in me as a musician. He's been there since Day 1, and there's so much to be said about doing something with people that you love.

Skrillex

Love Music Day People Me Doing

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

Shuler Hensley

Work Love Theatre Year Just Because

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

Diane S. Sykes

Best Constitution Short Political

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

Douglas Coupland

Good Eagles Hairdo

Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

Dean Ornish

Better Emotions Worse Our Resonate

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Bob Geldof

Year Stones Who Hit Did Careers

In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still a very specific set of writers they look at. And I don't think there's a lot of female writers on that list.

Allison Schroeder

Writing Action Think Meetings Look

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Susan Sontag

Past America Person Photographer Who

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Sharon Draper

Happiness Sunset Beautiful Joy Happy