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Elif Batuman Quotes

The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

Dreams College Opinion Criticism

Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.

Winter Snow Bathroom Apartment Lived

Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That's what Congress has come to.

Walk Believe Why Worst Office Side

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

Jennifer McMahon

Poetry College Writing Year Vermont

Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.

Back Stage Up Pretty Beat Sit

I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably be in therapy all of my life.

Life My Life Therapy Come Fact

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

Monica Lewinsky

Life Myself Past Move On Build Try

I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

History People Mind Interesting Done

I came to the realization that I'm a child of God, and that's my identity. If this all goes tomorrow, I don't have the proverbial rug under me that can be pulled out. I'm taken care of, and there's someone who loves me.

God Identity Child Tomorrow Me Care

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

Mother Brother Me Said She Writer

Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.

Life Time Animal Hands You Shoot

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

Clay Matthews III

Together Think Musicians Nice Kind

If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.

Yourself Doctor World Airplane Help

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