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Elif Batuman Quotes

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

Person Question Ask Fiction Answer

I love being outside with my boys, playing tag or trying to keep up with them.

Love Trying Outside Up Playing Keep

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

Anatoly Chubais

Fight Doubt Professional Possible

I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.

Life Anger Me Conflict My Life Find

After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.

Soviet Afghan Themselves Many After

Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.'

Change Think Feel Exercise Body

I don't think I would ever write and star in a show again.

Think Write Star Show Would Again

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

Michelle Dockery

School Child Singing Loved Acting

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Culture People Mean Economy Only

If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.

Mohamed El-Erian

Good People Independence Decide Idea

Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.

Day Mountain College End Every Day

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

Success Future Business Time Start

I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thinks it's so weirdly apparent and obvious.

Chelsea Leyland

Me Person Cat Things Big Obvious

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