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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People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.
Chance The Rapper
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Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
Peter Coyote
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"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.
Sarah Dessen
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
Rabindranath Maharaj
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I'm waiting for the floor to drop out from under me.
Kelly Clarkson
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Tea Obreht
