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 always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.