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Jennifer Egan Quotes

I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true.

Jennifer Egan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Think Thought America You Lesson

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

John Barton

Challenge Reading Experiment Own

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

Jeremy London

Cricket World Late Watching Up Cup

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

John Podhoretz

Now Animals Two Used Comedians Who

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

Stanley Hauerwas

Hope Writing Learn Done May Well

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Roger Ebert

Challenges Tragedy Human Need Expand

Alexander Payne is one of those directors who is completely in charge and knows exactly what he wants, which is really fun. It's fun when a director is very specific. He knows totally the tone that he's going for. It makes it easier than if everyone's just guessing and trying to figure it out.

Rob Huebel

Fun Trying Director Everyone Out

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

Monica Johnson

Thankful You Christmas Be Thankful

I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.

Mitt Romney

Sons Swear Mac PC Couple

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Organization Think Assume Needs

I regard bed as my best friend.

Diana Rigg

Friend Best Best Friend Bed Regard

It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

Christine Taylor

Great You Always See Connecting

The mistake people that want to be actors make is to move to New York or L.A. right away. But it's like... go act somewhere first. Be an actor. A story is a story, and an audience is an audience, no matter where you're doing it.

Conrad Ricamora

Mistake New York People Story Doing