Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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CollegeOutGot

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MeThinkEntertainmentWriteBeing

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

Jo Brand

MenComedyYouLookQuizBoard

'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

ChurchStageOperaLittleStarted

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

John Niven

TimeMeLunchMeetingsWeekForget

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

John Shirley

GreatDoctorCareSometimesCompany

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Amy Winehouse

TogetherPoetryAlwaysStuffSongs

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

Stephen Gardiner

StruggleSurviveDifficultHouses

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

Skylar Grey

FlawsEmbraceBecomeNeedThings

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

Tom Hanks

GreatLonelinessThinkFateWay

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.

Rose George

MarriageFreedomIndiaBurnAnimals

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

Dinesh D'Souza

PeopleKnowIntellectualWantMany

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Domhnall Gleeson

MeNobodyStreetHarry PotterEver

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