Elif Safak Quotes

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

Elif Safak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MotherMeLanguageEnglish Language

I love 'Gossip Girl.' I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like 'Top Chef.'

Jessica Stroup

LoveGirlChefRealityGossipTop

AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.

Jerome Powell

FailureProblemsBeyondSingleWell

I'm interested in what the fans think, in what would make them feel connected to the Wayward Pines they had grown to love. I had a lot of fun thinking about the first season.

Melissa Leo

LoveFunThinkThinkingFeelFirst

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

Matthew Macfadyen

PeopleYouFindNobodyKnowGet

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

Jeffrey Kluger

LifeFamilyGoodSonDaughterRules

I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys - they were surfers. They didn't like me, never talked to me. And if they didn't like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.

Stephen Furst

GoodBeachSchoolMeHigh School

How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber.

Steven Levy

CuriosityYouWildFirstiPhoneOut

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

Liz Phair

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Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.

Lita Ford

WorkGreatTalentHimGuySomeday

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

Christopher Nolan

BelieveBetterPhotographyPowerful

My first signature was pretty long, but someone said, 'You need to shorten that up so much.'

Anthony Bennett

SomeoneLongYouSaidFirstNeed

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

Aslan Maskhadov

PeopleWorldFreeFightingWill

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