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Jennifer Egan Quotes

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

Jennifer Egan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I Am Feel Doing Worth Choice New

'The Bottoms' or 'A Fine Dark Line' are two of my favorites.

Joe R. Lansdale

Dark Two Line Fine Favorites

When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Life Great Think Sleeping Complain

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

Joel Edgerton

Work Window Looking Think Drama Out

When I started out in this business, dance was not at the height it is now. It was almost like, you're either a dancer or an actress.

Jenna Dewan

Business Dance You Now Height Out

My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.

Andy Dunn

Journey Hope Behavior Long Evolution

As an owner, you have a choice. Do you want to adopt a vision that you think is real sharp and real cutting edge and could get you from good to great - has a chance - or do you want to just say the organization is not about that, and we're not going to try to adopt a new coaching philosophy and vision.

Jeffrey Lurie

Good Vision Great Organization Think

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

John T. Flynn

Sea People Black End Hands Land

At every meeting, I mention that if I am doing something personally that gets in the way of progress for the company - or something needs to change - please come and tell me.

John Rampton

Change Progress I Am Me Doing Way

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

Rosie Perez

Great I Am Small Doing You Career

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

Mary Roach

Day Curious People Me Think You

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Way Model International Relations How

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

Chris Cornell

Myself Identity Thought Create Never