Elif Safak Quotes
Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.
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I think the big thing with O.J. - I've known him since he was in high school - and he's a great kid, loves the game of basketball.
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Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.
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Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.
