Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Jim Balsillie

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I have one of those gravel-y voices with no range to it.

Jimmy Page

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For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.

Meghan Daum

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Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

John Hull

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You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Maude Adams

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Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

John Simon

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I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Steve Buscemi

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I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.

Stella Young

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One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.

Ron Howard

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I love feeling like I'm inhabiting the body of a ninja, like I could rob a liquor store with my bare hands if I wanted to.

Ronda Rousey

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I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

Rupert Friend

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I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

Mary Lambert

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