Elif Batuman Quotes

Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were writing their essays in English, and they were very interesting - even the sense of structure, the conventions of writing, the different styles of writing.

Elif Batuman

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Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Joan Jett

PowerCreateBandOldCompanyOut

Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

Andrew Dominik

WorkGreatMoneyPeopleMoviesTest

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Meghan O'Rourke

LifeMotherSkyWorldYouBecome

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

Jeff Dunham

LaughTryDeadAudienceMajority

I was a staff songwriter for Combine Music Publishing in Nashville for seven years. I'd sit around with a groups of friends with a Yamaha piano and a tape recorder and crank out songs.

Michael Bacon

MusicFriendsNashvilleOutPiano

Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.

Stephanie McMahon

FatherMotherSonHusbandNephew

For many years, when people described how the Internet worked - whether they were talking about shopping, communicating, or starting a business there - they inevitably invoked a single metaphor. The Internet, said just about everybody, was a contemporary incarnation of the wild, wild West.

Steven Levy

BusinessPeopleShoppingTalking

If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.

Robbie Williams

ManMeSomeoneYouWantNeed

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Martin Seligman

FutureHopeMoreReligionsSeem

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Martin Scorsese

WorldEndSaidStreetLondonCorner

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

Conrad Black

WealthNeverChiefThing

Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.

Brad Feld

ThoughtGarbageSameAlwaysDreaming

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