Tim O'Brien Quotes

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

Tim O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 1, 1946

Topics

PeopleBootsYouSpecialWayInside

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

Jimmy Gomez

WorkTryingSpanish

I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.

John Cho

WalkWantStuffBases

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

Robert Mapplethorpe

LiveHopeEnoughLongI CanFame

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

Ruth Porat

GoodCrisisOptionsMidst

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Martin Parr

WantTalkNeverGreatestMayWell

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

Michael Pollan

PowerBalanceNeverWithoutPotato

If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I wouldn't be able to write these kinds of song. I'd be too busy doing other things.

Jason Isbell

TimeSongBusyDoingWriteThings

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

Diane Ladd

DanceStandLookI CanIrishHead

I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

Debbie Reynolds

MyselfChallengeSort

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

Conan O'Brien

FireWarFightingArmyFriendsRun

Put me in a room with a songwriter, and I just clam up. I get shy.

Shawn Colvin

MeShyUpRoomGetJust

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

Shelby Lynne

MusicCountryCountry MusicModern

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