Orhan Pamuk Quotes

'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Superman is the hardest character to draw. There are a couple of things that make him difficult. He's got a very simple costume and doesn't have the long cape like Batman. He's not a character that is necessarily always in shadow, and he doesn't have a mask.

Jim Lee

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I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

Jeremy Shada

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My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

John Kluge

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I don't know if I'm embarrassed because I think it's a funny show, but I could imagine there being a snootiness about it, but I do find 'The Big Bang Theory' very funny. I think that's a good show. I think it's fun, I like the actors; I think they're all doing a great job.

Stephen Merchant

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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Steven Wright

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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Robert Wyatt

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Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.

Robert Zubrin

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I've been on record since 2005 saying we need to find a way to eliminate the use of the pre-existing condition. The way to do that is really to get everyone in the insurance pool, and that way, we'll have people who need health services today, some who need it tomorrow, and some who won't need it for quite some time.

Ron Williams

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Wherever possible, I like to use home-grown or locally produced ingredients.

Mary Berry

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One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

Michael Scheuer

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I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.

Lorde

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