Elif Batuman Quotes
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.
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I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.
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Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.'16
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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
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Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity.
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I don't believe in being ashamed about not having read things.
