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Person Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third…
- That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I…
- I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about…
- What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and…
- I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
- There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person…
- Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in…
- It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She…
- The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in…
- Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see…
- For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent…
- It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.
- At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal,…
More Person Quotes
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe