Elif Batuman Quotes

Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

Elif Batuman

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MysteryUpHardestComePlotTried

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.

Anderson Paak

LivePeopleMeGoRealDrumming

Every emotion that I had over the last three years pretty much had to be put on hold.

Meredith Brooks

ThreeEmotionOverYearsPrettyPut

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

Siri Hustvedt

FamilyNatureHappinessFunMe

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

Skitch Henderson

RadioDisappearThenWatchedSinatra

I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to make you want to read on, and I suppose I prefer you don't actually think about the 'how' at all - the writing technique, the 'style', or even who it is that's putting this together.

Ronald Frame

GoodStyleTogetherWritingThink

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.

Roisin Murphy

FamilyMusicChildPeopleGrowing Up

Of all the people that I got a chance to meet as I was growing up, probably one of the most famous was Eddie Peabody. I saw him live in person when I was just a child, and that excited me to want to learn more.

Roy Clark

LiveChildPeopleMeGrowing Up

Miranda's my character; I created her! But there's a lot of comedy I want to bring to the world that isn't just Miranda.

Colleen Ballinger

CharacterWorldComedyWantBring

One of my favorite comics is 'Love and Rockets' by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment.

Cliff Chiang

LoveCharacterJobPresentYouKind

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Chuck Hagel

PeopleImperfectInstitutionsSurely

In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.

Autre Ne Veut

CoolNirvanaJustLikeStuffLiked

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.

Peter Mullan

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