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Jennifer Egan Quotes

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writer Exclusive Happiest States

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

Work Good Best Beginning World Know

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

Experience Game Care Whole Designer

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Pressure Excuses Powerful Classic

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

Matt de la Pena

Family Parents People Young Up Well

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Live God Men Man Present Land

One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.

Amazing Me Society Genius More Big

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

Tomorrow Mind Kind Band Always Over

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

Funny People Think You Important

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Millard Fillmore

Power People You Legislative States

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.

Business Blessing Me Thought Fame

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Freedom Hate People Evil World Look

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

School Me High School Important Want

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