Elif Batuman Quotes
Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying.'Elif Batuman
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Vanessa Mae -
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin -
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro -
I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
Ted Cruz -
I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
Damon Galgut -
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
Hanna Rosin
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
Zoe Saldana -
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
Ed Pastor -
I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
Hannah Simone -
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
M. Ward -
I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
Carli Lloyd -
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
N. Scott Momaday
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A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.
Callan McAuliffe -
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
Warren Christopher -
Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.
Janet Mock -
Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying.'
Elif Batuman