Orhan Pamuk Quotes
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.
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I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
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I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.
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There are other people coming out now, like Adele, people who are making their own music, doing their own stuff. That's a good thing. I think that music's okay. I don't think we need to worry about it.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
