Tea Obreht Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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Back in 1993, I was studying in Delhi, and I had a girlfriend. I had never touched a girl before that in my entire life. One day, I decided to go out with her to a garden. We were sitting beside each other, and I just glanced around to see if anyone was looking at us, and I put my hand over hers. I thought love started in this way.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
