Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use for other things like education and healthcare.

Joe Lonsdale

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I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.

Johan Lindeberg

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The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

Jenny Han

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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.

John Hughes

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If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you're not going to do that by bumming them out.

Robert Lopez

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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

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Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.

Roger Ver

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There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.

Mary Tyler Moore

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You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

Chris Gardner

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Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place.

Brian Bell

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I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small village in Wirral, and my family didn't watch TV. I wasn't exposed to people with icon status. David Bowie popped up, but I had already shaved my eyebrows off by the time I saw his.

Pete Burns

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There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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