Tim O'Brien Quotes

When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader.

Tim O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MarriageDetailAttentionYouBad

I feel like now is great time for a rom-com because the genre is sort of being opened up to being told by people that look different from each other or who have different orientations.

Jessica Williams

GreatTimePeopleFeelLookNow

The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.

Amy Heckerling

AmazingPicturesPersonNowWay

In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.

Stacy Schiff

SchoolWorldPerfectClassWrite

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, 'They don't care about people with pre-existing conditions' - There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

Steve Scalise

DayPeopleColdCareYouKnow

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Mason Cooley

PeopleSolitudeCompanyMayAlmost

I believed that writing my story was my best shot to be able to pay my mom and my attorneys back and pull myself out of this massive crisis that I had put myself in.

Molly Bloom

MyselfBestMomWritingStoryBack

People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

Lisa Lampanelli

PeopleStoryLearnNothingNeed

I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.

Claire Denis

MusicCharacterMeProcessYouKnow

I definitely believe there is more than what can be seen. I don't know if it's anything that you'd consider omens or signs, but yes... I believe in something more.

Shiloh Walker

BelieveYouKnowI BelieveSigns

When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.

Paul Sorvino

DayDanceMeBreatheTwoLeave

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

Toby Jones

LifeBe DifferentStrangeWillNever

I think fans going to concerts expect more today in terms of meeting and things. It's cool - I get it because of how the Internet has made things much more personal for fans to follow with Facebook, Twitter and everything - but I also think it's kind of hindering because it takes from the music in a way.

Kellin Quinn

MusicTodayCoolThinkInternetWay

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