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Jennifer Egan Quotes

I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Adventure Kinds Like Stories

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

Writing Chance Aspire Would Like

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

Faith Politics War Optimism America

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

Robert Cailliau

Name Internet Forget Line Because

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

Rufus Wainwright

Work Myself Day Space Thinking Real

I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor. This dilettantism.

People Find Actor Being Exciting

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

Parents People Start Name Acting

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.

Science Birds Waves Physics Quantum

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

People Winning Artist Want Him Over

As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.

Age Football Child Basketball Early

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

I Was Raised Feminist Raised Hardcore

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Live Today Great Past World Dawn

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Music Man Me Better Place Old

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