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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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 essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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What we need is competition for places. We are certainly trying to engender that. When we name the final squad you could find that yes there might be a few established players left out of the squad. We'll find that out over the next two or three weeks.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
