Elif Batuman Quotes
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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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.
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'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.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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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.
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I eat next to nothing.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
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It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
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You are going to hit some good shots and not get rewarded, but that's just U.S. Open golf. It's tough; it's hard.
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Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.
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To ensure financial stability, we expect the provision of U.S. government securities settlement services to be robust in nearly all contingencies.
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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
