Orhan Pamuk Quotes
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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I don't like controversy.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I'm an outsider.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
