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Jennifer Egan Quotes

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Change Music Age Time Interesting

On 'Catfish,' I'm a co-host and onscreen cameraman, maybe the second onscreen cameraman after Wes Bentley's turn in 'American Beauty,' which is funny and ironic. But before that, I'd been doing a lot of creative nonfiction.

Funny Beauty Creative American Doing

Are you playing for your teammates and coaches? That's how it should be.

You Teammates Playing Your How

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

Me Start Think Thought Someone Down

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

Love You Back Down Meeting Paris

I used to love those movies, back in the day, like 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Shining.' I really liked those kind of movies, and I wanted to be a part of one of those kinds of movies.

Love Day Baby Friday Back Street

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Doing Dream Show TV Show TV

Rest is huge because if you're sleep-deprived, that can definitely run into the mental side of the game and can definitely hurt your game if you're playing tournament golf.

Game Rest Hurt Golf You Run

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

Food Direction Language Landscape

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

Start Diamonds Hands Shake Put

I'm a hands-on mum and I'm lucky to be able to be that. I can remember the things my mum used to do with me and that time together is so important.

Time Together Me Remember I Can

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Attitude Performance You Lose Wrong

It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America today. We lock them up as if locking them up is gonna solve the problem. And locking them up does not solve the problem. Did locking me up make me better? No, it did not. It made my struggle harder.

Today Struggle People Me Better

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