Elif Batuman Quotes
When I read that nobody should ever feel ashamed to be alone or to be in a crowd, I realized that I often felt ashamed of both of those things.
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.
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Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
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Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
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When I read that nobody should ever feel ashamed to be alone or to be in a crowd, I realized that I often felt ashamed of both of those things.
