Elif Batuman Quotes
The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me.
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I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
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The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.
