Elif Safak Quotes

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

Elif Safak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MotherGrowFindIndependentGrow Up

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

KindnessSunshineVirtueGrowsWhich

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Michael Haneke

DailyWarKnowWayCivil WarUs

My first call is always to my dad. It's really rad. What had initially drove my dad and me apart - all my stunts and antics - has brought us together, closer than we've ever been. My dad's been a huge part of my team.

Steve-O

TogetherMeTeamFirstAlwaysUs

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

Simon Mainwaring

TechnologyNewConnectSocialWell

I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well.

Roger Staubach

ScaredCompetitiveExcitedGotGoing

No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be.

Rita Moreno

MeChoicesSayMy OwnTellOwn

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Mignon McLaughlin

SinBeingSavedManyInept

When I was a kid, I liked to enjoy the game. I play good when I enjoy the game. If I get too serious in the game, I won't play the way I'm supposed to play. That's the way I am, always. I like to be happy, and I have a lot of energy.

Jose Reyes

GoodI AmHappyBe HappyEnergyWay

I love feeling exhausted after a good, hard, honest day's work.

Christina Tosi

WorkLoveGoodDayFeelingHard

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Bob Dylan

NowhereBeingGoingLikeTourLimbo

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

William Hazlitt

FearFriendsTrueWillNeverAfraid

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

Paul Thomas Anderson

CompetitionThinkMoviesHollywood

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