Jennifer Egan Quotes

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

Jennifer Egan

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I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

Jeremy Renner

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If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Maurice Greene

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Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

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I like going back and writing fiction.

Julia Sweeney

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Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.

Judith Butler

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To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Donald Sutherland

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I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

Christina Baker Kline

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When employees can bring their full selves to work, we get the full benefit of all their perspectives and experiences.

Bobby Kotick

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I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

Brittany Snow

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I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that.

Armie Hammer

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Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Allegra Huston

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People are always asking me if I work out, but to be honest, I'm doing very little at the moment. The only time I really go to the gym is if I'm staying in a hotel.

Ashley Jensen

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