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Tim O'Brien Quotes

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Words Feel Inside Big Like I Feel

I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.

Joe R. Lansdale

Strategy Done Because Well Attack

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

Interesting Movies Horror Emotion

It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

Taxes Raise Lethal Suddenly Thing

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Love Pressure Thrive Want Size

Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.

Amanda de Cadenet

Friend Women She Advocate Mine Dear

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Ideas Bad Sitting Up Just Stuff

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

History Great Best America Band Who

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Men War Suffering Me Reality Movies

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

Me Feel Why Behave Therapist Taught

I was a bouncer for, like, three months in Boston until everybody figured out that I should never be a bouncer. I'm so soft. I just have no aggression in me.

Me Three Never Boston Out Soft

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

Day War Thought Every Day Routine

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Thinking You Seeing See Something

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