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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
Mandy Patinkin
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
Hanya Yanagihara -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
Jack Herer -
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine -
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
Macaulay Culkin -
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 -
It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
Madeleine Stowe -
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 -
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler -
It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
Zach LaVine -
They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
Ma Jun
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I'm ensuring my place in heaven.
Andrew Motion -
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Antonia Fraser -
I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes -
Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.
Ian Kershaw -
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