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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

College Book Reading Think You Tell

You know, as a woman, it is tough to get to the top - like to get to that respected level in this industry - in any industry, I think.

Woman Tough Think You Know Top

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Rhetoric More Cheap Evidence Dearly

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Travel World Wilderness Alaska Most

There are a few roles I want to play, but mostly I just want to keep doing a play every now and then, watch kids grow and eat cookies and drink tea.

Robert Sean Leonard

Tea Grow Doing Cookies Play Want

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

Game Names Catch Thrown Much Were

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

Angela Duckworth

Effort Direction Grit You Become

I can tell how honest a joke is or how true a joke is by how fast the laughs come.

Fast I Can True Joke Tell Honest

I just try to make the plays when they throw them to me.

Me Try Make Just Throw Them

There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.

Father Attitude Direction Think Push

It was such a joy to be an actor on 'The Wire.'

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Fear Live I Am Tired World Country

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Failure Faith Think America Greatest

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