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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NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
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'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
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For thousands of years, much of humankind has believed that only special places are infused with the sacred and that you must get away from the everyday in order to find it. Not so, everything is infused with the holy - from chairs to clothing to kitchen stoves.
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I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
