Elif Safak Quotes
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.Elif Safak
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
Adam McKay -
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian -
For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
Haley Bennett -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen -
I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
Yair Lapid -
If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.
Caio Fonseca -
My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
Candace Parker -
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas -
I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
Ina Garten -
Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
Harmony Korine
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
Gary Ross -
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
A. N. Wilson -
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Abel Korzeniowski -
I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
Felicity Jones -
I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.
Garth Ennis -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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Damn stupid vampires and their stupid sense of stupid superiority
Carrie Vaughn -
It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
Jason Bateman -
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie -
I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
Natalie Martinez -
We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.
William Cowper Prime -
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
Elif Safak