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Elif Safak Quotes

When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't think about what other people are going to say or how they're going to receive your work. Just be your work.

Elif Safak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: turkish
Birth: October 25, 1971

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Work People Think You Say Going

When Dad made a decision, whether it was about family or his own career, the majority of the time, it was for the long term, not the short term.

Steven Ford

Family Time Decision Short Career

Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy.

Juanes

Life Good Music Me Good Things Bad

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

DeRay Mckesson

Time People Think Be True Rules

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Desi Arnaz

Problems Comedy Understand Jokes Did

My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.

David Twohy

Time Job Writing Enough Hands Why

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result.

Bobby Robson

Result Nice Anything Would

I will always be the first to admit when I have done something wrong.

Arjen Robben

Wrong Admit Done Will First Always

Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.

Anthea Turner

God Feel You House Upset Knowing

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Shane Carruth

Good Time Good Things Long Flaws

It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own.

Sebastian Faulks

Great New Say Fair Old Comparison

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

Tim Ferriss

Money Parents Growing Up Budget Up

I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.

Rick Riordan

Friend Me Book Library Never Days