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Jennifer Egan Quotes

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Resilience Believe Selfish Clarity

Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

Love Love Is Important More Romance

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

Mother Play Tennis She Singer Piano

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

John C. Calhoun

Patriotism Greatness Way Protection

In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

Future Medical Support People Sick

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

Jennifer Ellison

You Know Mortgage Got Get Even

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

Today Time Challenges World Think

I started dancing at the age of three in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio, and it really was my sister's dream to pursue dance professionally.

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Patience Music Character Habit Fake

I don't think so-called high technology matters in death. I think they had high technology before Noah's Ark. And it got lost because that was the first Ice Age.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Technology Age Death Think Ice Lost

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

Time You Said Nothing Tell Going

About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped.

Denise Van Outen

Me Saying Disappointed Being Four

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

Child People Parent You Want Okay

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