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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They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.
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You couldn't shoot a fart out of your own ass!
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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.
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Obama: But you would rule in the possibility to fight against ISIS.Trump: Well, I'm never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn't wanna say. Even if I felt - it wasn't going - I wouldn't wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it.
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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.
