Jennifer Egan Quotes

In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee showing itself! Honestly, though, I'm not one of those people who listens to music constantly. I really love silence.

Jennifer Egan

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You have to work at everything. You've got to make it work.

John Catsimatidis

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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

John Cheever

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I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

Ronaldinho

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I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

Rupert Grint

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When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.

Mary Steenburgen

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To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.

Michelle Kwan

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I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like 'Irreversible,' 'The Passion of the Christ,' 'Malena'; it's so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That's why I'm an actor.

Monica Bellucci

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It hurts me to consider anybody questioning my performances.

Lizzie Armitstead

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The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

Joseph Fiennes

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The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

Jonathan Kellerman

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I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

Dominick Cruz

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