Elif Batuman Quotes

'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Author

• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Something

• My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Best
  • Hair
  • Color

• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Success
  • Capitalism
  • China

• I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Books
  • Four
  • Starbucks

• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Certainly
  • Lively

• I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Mind
  • Business

• Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Never
  • Students

• I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Ugly
  • Devil
  • Colors

• I'm a lover of songs.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Songs
  • Lover

• There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Life
  • Situation

• Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Think
  • Animals
  • WIld

• If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • May
  • Think

• The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • War
  • Law

• If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Today
  • Law

• I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Takes

• I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Pool

• I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.

  

  William Moseley
  • Remember
  • Listening
  • Firsts

• If you ask me, people are unnecessarily gloomy about the end of the world.

  

  Bentley Little
  • World
  • Gloomy

• I'm here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that's actually quite daunting, but which I think would be nice to shine a light into. The destination of any interesting drama is that you shine a light into a place that not many people know about.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• 'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.

  

  Elif Batuman