Tim O'Brien Quotes

If you stop loving someone, did you ever love them? If you say you're committed and later you're not committed, well, was the first thing commitment? You see what I mean? This kind of thing has always interested me.

Tim O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveCommitmentMeSomeoneYouStop

I loved dancing as a young girl.

Andie MacDowell

GirlLovedYoungDancingYoung Girl

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

Matt Smith

StarsI CanGoMeetRockWeak

We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

Jeb Bush

PeopleResultRulesFastGrowing

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

John Travolta

AutismKnownLeastIllnesses

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

SpeakWrongWellTerrible

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

Robin S. Sharma

FightWorldMoreDreamersOrdinary

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Mary Karr

ThinkProblemMediaVisualLikeTV

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

Mary J. Blige

MyselfMeGrowing UpThoughtGrowing

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Marvin Harris

GoodAttitudeYearYouPigsMiddle

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

Miriam Toews

MyselfCultureFeelWantAuthority

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

Jean Craighead George

GoodBestWritingInterestingDoing

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Jason Reitman

LifeSonThinkYouCareerMovies

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