Tim O'Brien Quotes

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

Tim O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

Jim Fowler

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Your intention going in is to do the best you can. You go in and do your work, day to day, the best you can. But it's entirely up to the director and the editor and the producers and the studio how it turns out.

John Candy

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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

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If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.

Michael Dickinson

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

John Updike

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I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

Stanley Donen

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I want to be more than just an artist and be a people's person and do a lot of stuff for people.

Stefflon Don

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All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

Rob Portman

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I'm enough of a southeast Texas boy - there's enough white trash in my blood that when somebody gives me money to make a record, I feel like I have to please them instead of myself.

Rodney Crowell

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Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.

Roy Jones Jr.

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I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

Ron Carlson

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