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Jennifer Egan Quotes

Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Music Time Moment Song You

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

Me World Fame Seen Instant Before

I figured out who I was very early on - actually, at the age of 13, with the help of the Internet - so I knew that a transition, becoming a woman, was always something I needed to do.

Age Woman Internet Help Early Out

Coming from L.A. to D.C., I'm always impressed that in D.C., people are doing the things that the people in L.A. are pretending to do. Whenever I'm in D.C., I ask people what they do, and they say, 'I'm with the agency, or I'm with State.' In L.A., I ran into a guy who said, 'I'm working on an audition for a guy who happens to be with an agency.'

People Doing Said Say Ask They Say

Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

Passion Today Black And White Light

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

Rock Lucky First Pretty Trend Get

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

School Society Remember Seeing Way

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

Life Dating Feel Personal Talk Up

You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.

Believe In Yourself Yourself Smart

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

Opportunity Job People World Person

Whether I'm making a gluten-free cookie or a lactose-free milkshake, my end goal is always to make it so awesome, clever, and creative that you'll want to indulge whether you have a sensitivity, dietary nuance, or don't.

Creative End You Goal Want Clever

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Story Journalism Crime Days Because

I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

Work Dinner Pressure Order Guy Well

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