Jennifer Egan Quotes

If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a traditionalist. That is what readers care about. It's what I care about as a reader. Now if I can have that along with a strong girding of ideas and some kind of exciting technical forays - then that is just the jackpot.

Jennifer Egan

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Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical.

Jessica Williams

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I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Jo Brand

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History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

Jeff Vandermeer

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I am not someone who is afraid; I am someone who reasons.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I don't do that virtual reality stuff. I'm not even into 3D, actually... I've been offered it. I just don't want to.

Roger Deakins

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A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

Romesh Gunesekera

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I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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I've been in L.A., but I wasn't acting. I didn't know that I wanted to act, so I was in L.A. but working at a restaurant seven days a week and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and all that kind of stuff.

Mircea Monroe

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How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

Joshua Foer

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I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

Joseph DeRisi

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I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

Chris Robinson

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I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

Peter Cooper

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