Orhan Pamuk Quotes
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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I make work not to give answers but to question things.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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'I can’t imagine,' said Dupre, 'a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there’s no cause for alarm.'
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The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
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Other than the obvious, like Cher and Diana Ross, I actually find a lot of inspiration from time periods. So it's not necessarily people, it's the essence of the time period, whether it be the '90s or the '70s or the '40s. The specific time and what vibe it gave you, what the emotion of that time was, and trying to get that emotion again.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
