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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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
