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Jennifer Egan Quotes

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Curious You Find Know Way Write

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

Day College Internet Gambling Week

My mom always taught me - you know, little boys listen to their moms too much - that whatever you put into something is what you're going to get out of it.

Me Mom You Too Much Know Listen

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Business Government Plan Party Know

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

Chris Hemsworth

Good Sacrifice People Safety Others

I'm a big fan of Barack Obama. I think he carries a heavier burden and is held to a greater and higher standard than other candidates : I think there's a large, large portion of this country that feels disenfranchised and marginalized by the political process.

Think Process Political Country Big

Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' it's a sight to behold.

Home Roads Me You Country Sight

I was 23 when I wrote 'Neighbors,' and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Trying Look Back Drama Understand

In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn't pressurise me because I'm pretty confident about my musicality and my talent.

Talent People Me Expectations Pretty

We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

Winnie Byanyima

Future Treat Generation Crisis Act

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

World Think Grandchildren Will Real

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

Better Want Everyone Along Get Who

If I had an opportunity to hand-pick a team that I wanted to play in the NBA Finals, it would probably be the Lakers.

Opportunity Team Play NBA Would Had

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