Orhan Pamuk Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
