Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: June 7, 1952

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It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

Jennifer Connelly

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Work for work's sake doesn't thrill me, but when I'm in the zone, I'm creative, and the expression is free.

John Leguizamo

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I've often said, 'If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.' Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.

John Madden

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Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese - everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.

Robbie Williams

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In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.

Romesh Gunesekera

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I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

Miuccia Prada

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I'm not old-fashioned.

Cher

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I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

Anthony Holden

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I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

Anna Sui

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I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

William Morris Hunt

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