Elif Batuman Quotes

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

Elif Batuman

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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Jim Lovell

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We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

Jeffrey Tambor

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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Jean Racine

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I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

Ron Kovic

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I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.

Louis Sachar

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I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Juan Rulfo

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I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

Dmitry Medvedev

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When we first get to space, we feel sick. Your body is really confused. You're dizzy. Your lunch is floating around in your belly because you're floating. What you see doesn't match what you feel, and you want to throw up.

Chris Hadfield

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I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

Chuck Mangione

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We have the tendency of over-legislation regarding women.

Asma Jahangir

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As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

Susanna Phillips

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I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Suzy Menkes

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