Tea Obreht Quotes
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Tea Obreht
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
Ted Cruz
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
Val Kilmer
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Sam Donaldson
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
Padma Lakshmi
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
J. K. Simmons
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
Leonard Peikoff
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I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
Benjamin Hooks
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Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
Athol Fugard
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Tea Obreht
