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Elif Batuman Quotes

I think it is true that when we're older, we realize the way that people act is... you know, everyone's kind of talking off the cuff, and everyone's, you know, spitballing sometimes.

Elif Batuman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

People Think Talking You Sometimes

We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings. So I only ate oysters and drank coffee because I didn't want to turn into a mutant.

Jennifer Rubin

Coffee Desert Vegas Want Outside

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

John Searle

Existence Whatever Call Us Exist

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Amanda Burton

Character Great People Ideas Start

I never say a funny thing intentionally.

Jayne Meadows

Funny Say Never Funny Thing Thing

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Christopher Alexander

Great Environmental Problems Design

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

Chris O'Dowd

Opportunity Time People Start Saying

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

Chris Raschka

Teacher Arts Sense Maintain Sciences

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

Cindy Crawford

Perfect Try Everything

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

Arlen Specter

Job Society Security Way Judges Our

The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

Atom Egoyan

Time Space Camera Movement Ability

I go to third grade, and I'm scared to death. I'm just 6 years old, and the kids are so much bigger than me.

Philippe Dauman

Death Me Go Old Scared Bigger

Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.

Sylvia Sidney

Loved Friends Him Working Dearest