Tea Obreht Quotes
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
