Elif Safak Quotes
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.
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Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.
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I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.
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I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
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They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.
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Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.
