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Elif Batuman Quotes

'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

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Good Girl Wife Husband Good Wife

Time only has value when it intersects with energy.

Time Value Energy Only

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Words Prison Year Done Never First

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

Think Human Self-Centered Divinity

Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

Game You Become More Hard Release

Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.

Power Computers Problem Africa Need

I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.

Mother Me Song Remember House I Can

Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.

David Thibodeau

Life Time Water Better Place Lived

If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.

Work Day Breakfast Lunch Start Book

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

Courage Me Weakness You Look First

'WhatsApp' provides phone number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field.

People Phone Yes Expensive Playing

I approach horror music differently than anything else. The very first time I watch an episode, I want to be playing an instrument to it so I can get that shock into the show.

Music Time I Can Want Horror First

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

Think Doubt Country Through No Doubt

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