Tea Obreht Quotes

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Think
  • Justice
  • Looking

• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Attention

• I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Think

• I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Think
  • Me
  • Myself

• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • End

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Value
  • Never
  • Lead

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Stupid
  • Said
  • Islam

• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Health
  • Government

• I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Art
  • Dog
  • Rain

• Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Charity
  • Monday

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Women

• I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm 44 now; I feel better than I did when I was 34. I've got more clarity now. I wake up in the morning, and I write my blog, and then I go upstairs, and I work on music. And I do that every day. That's what I do. I don't check in once a week and think, "Oh, I've gotta come up with something now." I'm always writing. I was just in a coffee shop in Chelsea last night, just killing time, waiting for a friend, and I sat and wrote enough for three good songs. I love it. This is my life. It's all I do.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• 'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Tired
  • Year

• Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Country

• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Year