Elif Safak Quotes
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.
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Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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My favorite television show has changed throughout the years. I used to think 'Married... With Children' was really funny. But now that I've gotten older, it's 'The Golden Girls,' believe it or not. That shows kills me.
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I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
