Tea Obreht Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
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I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.
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To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
