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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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
