Orhan Pamuk Quotes
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.
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It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.
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I have learned how to take votes where I had to hold my nose because I had to compromise - something that you learn to do, especially when you have been in the minority.
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Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
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Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods...
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
