Orhan Pamuk Quotes

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleSocietyPoliticalPoverty

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

Joe Morton

WorkLoveBusinessPeopleChallenges

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.

Joe Frazier

CarAgeManSchoolYoungMy Own

As much as possible, I put my family first.

Jill Soloway

FamilyPossibleFirstMuchPut

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Ann Leckie

AngryPeopleGenderBeenWhoTried

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

Jeff Garlin

MountainsChallengesClimbGoWant

I'm kind of a boring person. People think I get to travel the world and I rap or whatever, but I'm pretty boring. My life is pretty crazy enough, and when I'm not on the road or doing something, I'm kind of boring.

Trip Lee

LifeTravelPeopleCrazyWorldRoad

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Tony Abbott

MeThinkConvictionsAgainstShould

I was on the school bus telling Richard Pryor jokes. I was sneaking, listening to Richard Pryor albums and would go to school the next day, tell all the jokes, and get in trouble because I was cursing.

Tony Rock

DaySchoolListeningTroubleGoBus

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.

Rose George

SeaGreenFruitFastWillNever

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mary McCarthy

BureaucracyBecomeModernRuleForm

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Diane Kruger

BeautyWomenMyselfWorldFeelOver

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter.

Christian Louboutin

LifeMotherMemoryMeMy LifeYear

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