Elif Safak Quotes

Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.

Elif Safak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FatherWifeSchoolIdentityStart

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.

Jhumpa Lahiri

IslandUniversityCampusMargins

The coffee's good in Italy. It's good in Spain. It's good in Istanbul. The coffee's not so good in America.

Joey Kramer

GoodCoffeeAmericaSpainIstanbul

When I was a kid, we got up, we walked a number of paces to a television, turned it on, and changed channels.

Jeffrey Tambor

TelevisionKidUpChangedChannels

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

Sister Parish

YearsLastComeWouldOurMany

I eat what I want but in moderation.

Shirley Eaton

WantEatModeration

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

Travis Barker

WalkTryingYouKnowLegsHard

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

Robert Fritz

I AmMeEnergyGivingCreationAm

I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.

Rob Halford

DriveDesertYouNeverPhoenixGet

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

Jason Kidd

LiveToughBackPlayGoWay

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

Joni Mitchell

TimeArtResponsibilityOrganization

I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Clint Eastwood

LookBadAfraidScreen

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Bob Kerrey

KnowledgeFightingYouOthersMore

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