Jennifer Egan Quotes

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Jennifer Egan

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GoodTimePresentYouWriteWell

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

Jimmy Griffin

SongGetMessageBobbyProduced

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Jim Mattis

HellKnowMoreCoachAnythingJust

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

GodExperiencePeopleMeaningSeek

It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

Jeff Bridges

HeroInterestingComedyDramaSide

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Michael Palin

MeWorldRestStandEnoughPlace

That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

Julia Roberts

WorkLoveGoodGreatCreativeJoy

I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other shows where I'm like, 'Take a sip of the Ole Smoky Moonshine and just let it be natural and cross your fingers that you say the right things.'

Dierks Bentley

PlanYouSayRightOutGoing

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

Sydney Schanberg

ChangePeopleBelieveYouWantJust

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

Shia LaBeouf

AloneMeYouPenFindShower

Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories that can explain everything. I think we need cinema to break that apart and remind us that we're not in control, and we don't understand as much as we think do.

Scott Derrickson

ScienceReligionControlWorldThink

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Richard Branson

WillLuckyTwoCasinoGetOur

It's best to keep acting real.

Liam Neeson

BestActingRealKeep

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