Tea Obreht Quotes
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
Ed Westwick
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
Forest Whitaker
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
Action Bronson
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
Laura Carmichael
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
Ban Ki-moon
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
Madeleine Stowe
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
Edgar Mitchell
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
Candice Olson
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I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.
John McEnroe
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
Barack Obama
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In a sense, the searches for both magnetic monopoles and gravity waves are very similar. But, theoretically, gravity waves are more solid.
Barry Barish
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht
