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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1960

Topics

Character Memories Writing Start You

If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.

Joe Piscopo

Someone Move On Say Want Disagree

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

American Up Little Things Very Lot

I landed in 1980 in Bangkok, and I stopped to eat ten times between the airport and the hotel. It was all lemongrass and ginger and chilies.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Hotel Airport Eat Bangkok Between

It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy.

Stefano Gabbana

Women Men Sexy Want Same Always

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Michel Patini

Great Past Memory World Important

I can look back now and say, 'Aw, that was a little dumb taking huge bumps onto concrete before a couple of hundred fans,' but if it wasn't for that attitude and that type of work ethic, I never would have gotten to WWE.

Mick Foley

Easy No Regrets Regrets Should Taken

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Joseph Kosinski

You Want See Only Would Movie

I have interviewed Hugo Chavez, Tim McVeigh, and hundreds of fascinating characters in South America, where I have lived for the past 15 years.

Jonathan Franklin

Past America Years Lived Where Hugo

At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'

Diana Gabaldon

Mind Gentleman Nice Years Point Had

The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.

Cheech Marin

Time Myself School Motorcycle Drive

I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.

Ashoke Sen

Physics Matter Been Interested Deals

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

Artur Davis

America You Wrong Know Want Land