Elif Batuman Quotes

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• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Experience
  • Actor
  • More

• For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Play
  • Religious
  • Now

• I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Live
  • Think
  • House

• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Future
  • Day
  • Balance

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Study
  • Philosophy
  • Buddhist

• I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Learn

• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Young

• George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • God
  • Years

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Political

• I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Team
  • Matter
  • Most

• I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Black
  • Fear
  • Brother

• As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Real
  • Weird
  • Yourself

• We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Future
  • Evolution
  • Depend

• Mine is the horny hand of toil.

  

  John Singer Sargent
  • Hand
  • Horny

• 'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'

  

  Abi Morgan
  • King

• I don't know what scared me about Marvin Gaye. I just know that he was scary, and that all of his... his aura was frightening to me. I can't explain why.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Why
  • Scary
  • Scared

• The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Real

• Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

  

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