Elif Safak Quotes
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Let there be an SU(5) Yang-Mills theory with all its gauge bosons, let the symmetry be broken down spontaneously, and let all but one of the remaining massless gauge bosons be sold into infrared slavery. That one last gauge boson is my favorite. Let him rush forth to illuminate all of my creations!
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.
