Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.

Jim Finks

ProblemsNFLLastMakeWantsThing

I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better.

John Lithgow

Getting OlderBetterGetting Better

I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

Max Winkler

SchoolWaitingMeSomethingFilm

I didn't have any idea that Gwen Stefani would evolve into this symbol of womanhood in America, but to me, that's not a musical story: it's a fashion story.

Robert Hilburn

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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that's at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.

Angela Duckworth

MemoryYouDownKnowWhyWill

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

Steve Vai

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Marriage is more complex than we think.

Ruby Dee

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Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

Mary Cheney

PrettyLow-KeyGoingConventionWere

You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate more. What they needed was more certainty about the future of the company.

Mike Krieger

FutureYourselfPeopleLaughYou

When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love.

Michael Mann

LoveMyselfMenManFeelYou

If the rhythm or beat of the music changes with a live orchestra, you have to think on your feet. If you feel like you are not on your leg, you have to make a decision to make it look as though nothing is going wrong.

Misty Copeland

LiveMusicDecisionFeetThinkLook

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Jules Renard

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