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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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
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
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I love working with Gary Sinise.
John Larroquette
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
Jim Sensenbrenner
I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.
Wendy Wasserstein
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
