Elif Batuman Quotes
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
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Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.
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I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?
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By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.
