Elif Batuman Quotes

'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

Elif Batuman

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

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• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

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• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I have been the victim of heartless malice.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• I can do whatever I want.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

  

  Valentino Rossi
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• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
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• In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

  

  Naoto Kan
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• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
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• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.

  

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• If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

  

  Sam Waterston
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• Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.

  

  Peter Uihlein
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• A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'

  

  Bob Shacochis
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• To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

  

  Democritus
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• Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

  

  Brooks Adams
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• 'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

  

  Elif Batuman
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  • Girl
  • Wife