Elif Batuman Quotes

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep your love of literature pure. I think that's kind of silly.

Elif Batuman

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LoveThinkLiteratureSillyYou

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

Joan Collins

LifeWorkChildrenTravelHappy

I didn't grow up beautiful.

Jennifer Flavin

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Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

Matt Damon

MeChoicesEndYouLookBack

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.

Sloane Crosley

LiveNew YorkCityMeLookingDown

What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.

Troian Bellisario

PeopleThinkYouKindHollywoodSee

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Mike Pence

PeopleAmericanPrioritiesValues

Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.

Luis Suarez

DaughterMeBornSpecialWillHere

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

Joshua Oppenheimer

GreatWorldThinkRealityCinema

If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.

Johnny Marr

ListeningWeekYouFallRunTop

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Dick Clark

FindTrendsOutJustSetThem

In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

Dean Bakopoulos

HonestyCoffeeFoodServiceBeerMe

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

David Talbot

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