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Elif Batuman Quotes

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

Literature Find Something Taking

Governments have a unique opportunity to incentivise corporations so that they can accelerate their evolution to a more sustainable economy through more sustainable practices and products.

Opportunity Unique Evolution Economy

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

Smile Ideas Feel You Artist Down

I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought into this fiction that one has to choose between the environment and business, which is just a complete falsehood and absurd.

Steven Van Zandt

Business Support People Choose Why

I actually really love Twitter - I used to feel angry and insulted when people criticised me or the shows, but now I don't take it too seriously. What I do love is that there's this great direct line to fans.

Love Great Angry Love Is People Me

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Me Believe Moral Psychology Seem

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Heart Experience Mind Performance Up

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

Joyce Carol Oates

Love Good Morning Breakfast Writing

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Simple Me Cricket Game Play Go

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Direction Consideration Taken Which

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

Mariel Hemingway

Life Me Husband My Life Back Twice

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Peace Organization World Desire Were

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.

Sweater Big Guy

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