Elif Batuman Quotes
When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.Elif Batuman
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
Wayne Dyer -
I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
Dakota Fanning -
I dig all kinds of competition.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
Viggo Mortensen -
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson -
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
Sally Schneider
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
Larry Hagman -
Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
Rachel Dratch -
My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
Natasha Lyonne -
I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
Victoria Abril
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
Camryn Manheim -
I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
Pat Conroy -
I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
Brown Campbell -
What makes us Americans is something more than just the circumstances of birth, what we look like, what God we worship, but rather it is a joyful spirit of citizenship. Citizenship demands participation and responsibility, and service to our country and to one another. And few embody that more than our men and women in uniform.
Barack Obama -
We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
E. W. Howe
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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.
Kristen Stewart -
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
Albert Einstein -
When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.
Elif Batuman