Tea Obreht Quotes

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Tea Obreht

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DeathMeGrandfatherComeHappened

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

Max Landis

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Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Amanda Lindhout

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That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.

Tom Guiry

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But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

Miranda Richardson

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Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

Lucy Liu

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The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

Jared Harris

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I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

Joss Whedon

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I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Dennis Eckersley

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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Chinua Achebe

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My act is a little raunchy. When people come to my club, I have to warn them it isn't Robert from 'Raymond.'

Brad Garrett

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My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

Bob Seger

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I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong.

Peter T. King

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