Tea Obreht Quotes
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I like things simple.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
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I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
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There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
