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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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I have more money now than I know what to do with.
Mark Wahlberg -
I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.
Jennifer Lopez -
If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
Jack Keane -
All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.
Liane Moriarty -
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