Tea Obreht Quotes

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

Tea Obreht

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: serbian
  • Birth: September 30, 1985

Topics

LifeMotherPeopleWritingCareer

I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.

Simon Cowell

WorkBelieveBetterFeelWeekYou

I pretty much spent my twenties as a musician and taking acting classes. I loved it. I was at UCLA getting As and Bs in English and creative writing, basically trying to stay out of the Army. All I really wanted to do was play music.

Robert David Hall

MusicCreativeWritingLovedActing

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

Rob Marshall

FeelYouKindAlwaysEarnFilm

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Robert Burns

FriendWorldWithoutUsBeforeWide

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.

Rod Parsley

LifeCulturePeopleLibertyRespond

Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.

Michael Keaton

FunnySomeoneAttentionWhoLike

What matters is that there is somewhere for those who are troubled, threatened or afraid to turn to in their darkest hour. What matters is that there are those who are willing and able to use the law as an instrument of inclusion, of protection, and of freedom.

Loretta Lynch

FreedomLawInclusionMattersTurn

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Dick Gregory

GoodFatherMotherGodMomEnough

On scores of sites, users can upload illegal files of my books. As per 1998's toothless Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I bear the burden of discovering and reporting each theft.

Peter Lerangis

BurdenBearDigitalActTheftBooks

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Twyla Tharp

ThinkYouAudienceFoolishArrogant

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Thomas Sowell

LiveImaginationWorldKindUpEven

We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.

Richard Flanagan

CompassionPeopleThinkYouNation

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