Orhan Pamuk Quotes

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.

John Gourley

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We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

John Denver

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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Mel Brooks

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A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.

Matthew Desmond

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Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Amanda Seales

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One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service was a part of the fabric of life. It wasn't one-upmanship. No one bragged about their medals, but you could see the look in the eyes, the tip of the hat. You served your country first, then you went to work and had a family.

Steve Daines

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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Stephen Carter

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I keep seeing the headline on articles that says something like 'Mary Gauthier Helping Our Veterans.' It's troubling - and it's condescending. Whatever I'm doing as a songwriter to help them tell their stories, they're giving it back to me double, triple, quadruple.

Mary Gauthier

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I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

Mary MacLane

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I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of 'Morning Joe,' and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon.

Mika Brzezinski

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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.

Mike D

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I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

Michelle Forbes

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