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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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.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.
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I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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At the end of the day, what's going to make bitcoin successful is more people making more interesting things, just like the beginning of the Internet.
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The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous; they judge other people without knowing the whole story. They want all the attention, and they're mean spirited.
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I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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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.
