Elif Batuman Quotes

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

Elif Batuman

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If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

John Lithgow

TimeFoolYourselfChildThinking

There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.

Amy Chua

MeBehaviorWantMoreBuySpoiled

What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages.

Amy Cuddy

BrainControlYouBodyUnderstand

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

Troy Polamalu

HairHelmetDownComfortableMore

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

Tom Stoppard

HistoryCommon SenseDoneNowSense

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

Roland Emmerich

PurposeBadNobodyMoviesMakes

I think it's not an accident that you don't have that many Asian American women writers who are breaking out. I don't think it's an accident that you don't have that many Asian American writers, either women or men. I don't think that immigrants are encouraged to become artists. That's very gendered and racialized and ethnicized.

Min Jin Lee

WomenMenThinkAmericanYouBecome

When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.

Joshua Jackson

YourselfPeopleBetterFeelYou

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

Johnny Mathis

MusicEnjoyWhyReally

I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.

Christopher Guest

WorkDownEditingBeginWatchNotes

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

Colin Hanks

SchoolCollegeHigh SchoolGuitar

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

Bryan Clay

MorningEasyYouBodyYour BodyUp

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