Jennifer Egan Quotes

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

Jennifer Egan

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Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.

Jess Walter

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It's one thing to lose weight, but it's another thing to eat healthy.

Jennifer Hudson

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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.

Maurice Sendak

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I'm a huge sci-fi geek, and I also really get into all of the alien shows on the History Channel where you see air force pilots talking about UFOs - I love that stuff.

Matt Lanter

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When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

Michael Bloomberg

SmileLiveTodaySleepPeopleMe

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

Amy Jo Johnson

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I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

Steve Earle

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Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Steve Erickson

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The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

Tom Morello

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When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.

Tom Rath

WorkFriendBestPeopleBest Friend

I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.

Rita Ora

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In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.

Michael Korda

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