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Jennifer Egan Quotes

Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Saying Criticism Conversation Person

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Chance You Settle Will Risk Unusual

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

Nature Result Important Size Surface

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

Andy Goldsworthy

Winter Bridge Year Next Century

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Business Money Doing Long You Back

I hail from a small town. My parents were never apprehensive about my decision to take up acting - they've been a constant support to me.

Decision Support Parents Me Small

I started playing when I was about 13, mainly because Dad had guitars lying around the house. My dad taught me my first three chords, and I taught myself from there.

Myself Me House Three Lying First

I'd love to try comedy, which I've never actually done. I could fail miserably at it, but I'd have fun working it out.

Love Fun Have Fun Comedy Done Never

The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.

Create Way Us Film Been Made

I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

Anthony Bourdain

Me Book Meaning Nobody Quantity

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

Myself Tell Something Opposite Sure

World War II proves there's no God.

God War World World War II World War

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.

Person More First See Statement

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