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I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. -- Jennifer Egan
I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc. -- John Clare
I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment. -- Steven Gerrard
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. -- Jennifer Egan
There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment. -- Steven Gerrard
Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire. -- Rob Sheffield
Nowadays people always say, 'How come he's doing such young shows?' But they never mention 'The Mod Squad'. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. -- Aaron Spelling
I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything. -- Kristin Chenoweth
I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music. -- Rick Rubin
I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together. -- Robert Mueller
I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or A Tribe Called Quest. I miss albums like those. -- Busta Rhymes
I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that. -- Jonny Wilkinson
Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad. -- Harry Redknapp
I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies. -- Jose Mourinho
Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media. -- Ralph McGehee
I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving. -- Ruud van Nistelrooy
Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads. -- Gary Neville
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. -- Evan Hunter
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. -- Che Guevara
If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check. -- Thomas Jefferson
It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it. -- Jennifer Egan
I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those. -- Busta Rhymes
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs? -- Guy Endore
When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering whos performing better, you take your eye off the ball. -- Frank Lampard
To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence. -- Sun Tzu
The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers. -- Fred Rodell
Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it? -- Jacqueline Winspear
In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell. -- Jennifer Egan
Actually, Katniss isn't complaining because she has no intention of staying with the "Star Squad," but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan. -- Suzanne Collins
Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle. -- Robert Stephens
The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors. -- John Mortimer
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band. -- Jennifer Egan
Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. -- Aaron Spelling
I had a record on the Terror Squad album "My Kinda Girls", and then I had a record on the second Terror Squad album and was featured all over it. I wasn't really introduced into the game until about late 2000 where people got to see where I look like. -- Tony Sunshine
I'm just different. There are a handful of different types of genre of music that I would love to just jump into and people don't realize that I'm really good at those things. They just know me as Tony Sunshine, the guy that sang the hooks for Terror Squad. -- Tony Sunshine
At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad. -- Franz Beckenbauer
They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing. -- Jim Bakker
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. -- Evan Hunter
You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit. -- John Newcombe
Dressing up and doing photo shoots was a side of the industry I really didn't think I would like. But now I've got a glam squad; I love trying on new outfits and experimenting with different looks. -- Ella Henderson
I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog. -- Fetty Wap
I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red carpet, I really enjoy the time it takes to do it myself, to choose my clothes and do my own makeup and my own hair. -- Dita Von Teese
We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day. -- Jack Charlton
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit. -- Michael Hastings
When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball. -- Frank Lampard
If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing. -- Michael Owen
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers. -- Don Yaeger
When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer. -- Ashley Tisdale
I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life. -- Michael Owen
Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it. -- Jennifer Egan
The first time I met Leo Messi, I didn't know who he was, only that I couldn't believe the boots he was wearing. But he is like a brother to me. It was at the start of 2005, when I was with the Argentine under-17 squad and I saw him chatting with Ezequiel Garay and some other players about the boots he'd brought back from the U.S.A. -- Sergio Aguero
Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. -- Robert Burns
The young players in the Welsh squad aren't young any more -- Ian Rush
You need to be your own cheer squad not your own worst enemy. -- Miya Yamanouchi
Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them. -- Bear Bryant
I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond. -- Shahid Khan
There is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something. -- Frank Lampard
Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep. -- David Bowie
When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad. -- Moon Bloodgood
Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette. -- David Letterman
I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car. -- Dane Cook
Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that. -- Alex Ferguson
No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don't work out. -- Jennifer Hudson
Todd came toward me with the squad trailing behind him like a street gang of angry thugs with breasts. -- Kristin Walker
I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs. -- Blake Lively
My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed. -- Ishmael Beah
Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement. -- David Letterman
When honor and glory get your squad killed and your brothers-in-arms shoved under the rug, you stop believing in the terms. -- Katherine McIntyre
I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn. -- Jermain Defoe
(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk. -- Rainn Wilson
We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad -- David Gill
When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone? -- Frank Lampard
Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano BuendÃa would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad. -- Woody Hayes
If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad -- Smedley Butler
Disappeared like fog in a stiff morning breeze, teen revilers when a squad car creeps up the driveway, roaches when the kitchen light comes on. -- Dennis Vickers
Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless. -- Mike Catt
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. -- Eldridge Cleaver
You could say I'm on the troubleshooting squad." "Troubleshooting?" He put a hand on the back of his waistband. "I see trouble and I shoot it. -- Karen Chance
I thought, I can't wait to get on the podium squad. I was in my hotel and they were in the Premier Inn living the high life! -- Anthony Joshua
A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We. -- Wanderlei Silva
The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all. -- John Wooden
Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true -- Claudio Ranieri
Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment. -- Rocky Bridges
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. -- Frederick Forsyth
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. -- T. S. Eliot
I'm so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London. -- Alexis Sanchez
The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcotics squad. We're soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs. -- Jay McInerney
I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more. -- Alessandro Del Piero
You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad. -- Mara Liasson
I think I stand as much chance of dying in front of a firing squad or in a gas chamber as you do being killed on a plane flight home. Let's hope you don't. -- Ted Bundy
Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition. -- Andy Cole
Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch. -- Sammy Nelson
There was no glam squad, whatsoever. There were no dressing rooms. There were no bathrooms. Let's start at our base level. We didn't have toilet paper. We went to the woods to use the bathroom. -- Katie Aselton
I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures. -- Annie Leibovitz

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