Elif Batuman Quotes
Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.
Elif Batuman
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
E. F. Benson
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
Gary Hamel
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
Kate Hudson
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
Ed Stoppard
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
Ira Glass
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.
Kent McCord
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Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.
Kim Jee-woon
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By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!
Alfred Enoch
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
Fernando Pessoa
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I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
Jenny Offill
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Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.
Elif Batuman