Elif Batuman Quotes
When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
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It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
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I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'
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You are the single biggest influence in your life.
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When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.
