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Elif Batuman Quotes

There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

Patience Little Things Few Least

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Me Think Someone Marketing Never

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

Places Two Kinds Criminal Would

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

Vision Aesthetic You Buy

The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an undersupply of people committed to the public sector.

Joseph Stiglitz

People Financial Committed Public

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Time Myself Choices Better Bad Goal

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Life I Am Ambition World My Life

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

Vision You Opponent Who Your About

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Me Out Stick Many Category Makes

There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.

Time Better Long Long Time Going

I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know?

Character Mind You Know Want Kind

I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.

Girl Me Train Kind Dice Fiction

The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.

Power Fire Social Media Creative

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