Jennifer Egan Quotes

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.

Jennifer Egan

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LoveBackFictionBringJustWays

In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.

Jeremy Sisto

HappyBe HappyYouWantGoingMove

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

Megan Fox

MyselfFireMeCareSomeoneYou

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Robert Sternberg

DoingYouStatisticsGroupTeach

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

Alyson Stoner

SportsFitnessEnjoyAnythingGoing

The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.

Stephen Kinzer

TodayBestRunMoreLeadersIdea

Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit.

Sue Hubbell

ConfidenceBeePersonNothingMore

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

MusicHeartBeautifulPoetryUnhappy

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

Shiri Appleby

CharacterResponsibilityViewYou

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Tori Amos

DrivenInvolvedIdeaLikeForm

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

Jose Mujica

AmericanImportantMoreForceThan

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

Doug Liman

LiveNew YorkPeopleCityAction

To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.

David Thibodeau

ExperiencePeopleMeNegativeThink

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