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Jennifer Egan Quotes

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Best Shine Book Chance You Know

There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

Plants Garden Just Because Why More

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

Think Crime Self-Defense Weapon Sign

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Path Best Start Facts Famous Drama

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

Work God Money Government Think Out

I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.

Alone Children Food Day Red Think

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Style Look Her Religious Public

Just believe in the future and direction of the capability that ARM has. Go deep and build a better future, both for the company and for its contribution to the industry. That's what I want ARM to do: invest more the future.

Future Believe Deep Direction Better

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

Janice Dickinson

Celebrity Everything Make-Up Hawking

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.

Small You Find Never Invisible See

I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.

Good Age Think Good Person You Todd

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Me Pressure Feedback You Wrong Wear

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Anthony Bourdain

Child Mom Small Farmer She Top

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