Jennifer Egan Quotes

For me, New York is about anonymity; that's the draw. It's not at all about other people in my business being nearby. It's that I can get on the subway and eavesdrop on conversations that I would never have access to otherwise. That's why I stay. That's why I could never leave.

Jennifer Egan

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Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Melissa Bean

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I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.

Tom McClintock

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The reason why I called it 'I Told You' is because I wanted to show people that I have been doubted, and I have been in the face of adversity. Coming out of that situation, this is my 'I told you' moment.

Tory Lanez

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Tony Benn

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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Louis Kahn

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My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.

Lisa Jewell

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Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Dick Wolf

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Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy - victims - while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.

Chris Smith

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When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

Clara Zetkin

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If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

Anne Bancroft

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Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

Ashwin Sanghi

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The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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