Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
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I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
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Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.
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There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
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I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.
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I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.
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What will it take till you believe in me The way that I believe in you.
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Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.
