Tea Obreht Quotes

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

Tea Obreht

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

Joaquin Phoenix

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I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe E. Lewis

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There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.

Sonu Nigam

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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Mary Douglas

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There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

Michael Phelps

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I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

Jonny Greenwood

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I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

Diana Rigg

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It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.

Dennis Quaid

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Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.

Cornelia Parker

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In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

Clint Eastwood

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I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.

Arthur Potts Dawson

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The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

Pope Francis

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