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Elif Batuman Quotes

When you walk around, you have all this stuff rattling around in your head, things that have happened to you, things you have read. Life is just life, and you get what you get out of it.

Elif Batuman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

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Life Walk You Out Head Things

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Jessica Savitch

Debate Important The Most Important

No one much wants to be belittled, but we tolerate slurs surprisingly often for ourselves; for our lionised children, we demand freedom from insult.

Andrew Solomon

Freedom Children Insult Demand Much

With 'The Exorcist,' a lot of things went into it. I hadn't seen the show until they asked me, and then I checked the show out and thought it was very well done.

John Cho

Me Thought Well Done Done Out Seen

I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

Megan Amram

People Growing Up Weird Feel Looks

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

John Schneider

Think You Down Movies Message Made

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

Amanda Lindhout

People Think Unusual Invincible Like

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

Ron Livingston

Fire You Take Going Thumbs Your

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

Lisa Hannigan

Money World Think Want Studio Had

As a stylist, it is important for me to always steer my clients in the right direction and to push them when I feel it is necessary.

Brad Goreski

Me Direction Feel Push Important

Nobody has had more awful things written about them than me.

Brigitte Nielsen

Me Nobody More Things Awful Than

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

William James

Truth Thoughts Copy Interaction Us

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

Peter Berg

Money Yourself Better You More Hard