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TEA OBREHT I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me! TEA OBREHT A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childh... TEA OBREHT For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to ... TEA OBREHT TEA LEONI TEA LEONI When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when yo... TEA OBREHT My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996. TEA OBREHT When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going... TEA OBREHT TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI We didn't anticipate seeing him very much. DALE TEA I couldn't be more proud of the effort of our kids tonight. We were down eight with three minutes to... DALE TEA I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma. TEA OBREHT I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters. TEA OBREHT Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same tim... TEA OBREHT My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the facult... TEA OBREHT In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year. TEA OBREHT At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical eleme... TEA OBREHT When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hun... TEA OBREHT A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. TEA OBREHT TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happe... TEA OBREHT I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young. TEA OBREHT My grandfather and I were very close. TEA OBREHT TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI TEA LEONI green tea is green GREEN TEA TEA LEONI As it stands now, I don't know what it means. DALE TEA MICHELLE MALKIN MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE OBAMA My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because o... MICHELLE PHAN MICHELLE OBAMA You need to have explosive power. So you need to have good agility to move your feet quick and be in... MICHELLE CARTER MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE BACHELET MICHELLE BACHELET MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE HODKIN MICHELLE HODKIN MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE HODKIN MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE WILLIAMS MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE PFEIFFER Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.' MICHELLE PHAN If I can find time to play games, it's console gaming. I don't want to be plugged into my ph... MICHELLE PHAN Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever. MICHELLE PHAN Seven years ago, in my first semester at college, the professors handed out MacBook Pros. With mine,... MICHELLE PHAN That's the beauty about beauty; it's not like a tattoo. You can just wash it right off, and ... MICHELLE PHAN Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have t... MICHELLE PHAN MICHELLE PFEIFFER MICHELLE OBAMA I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to w... MICHELLE ARCHAMBEAULT It's the smallest of the majors, and they have an automotive-market niche, and some people think tha... MICHELLE APPLEBAUM After watching (Gilbert) warm up, I thought they were very nonchalant and really weren't going very ... MICHELLE ANDERSON We'd like everybody to come to celebrate her life. Some of her friends are going to speak. MICHELLE ANDERSON She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run t... MICHELLE ANDERSON We learned about different types of technology like communications and transportation. MICHELLE ALLEN We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm... MICHELLE ALLEN My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research... MICHELLE ALLEN The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywo... MICHELLE ABRAHAM There will be a lot of new choices for consumers and operators to make over the next decade. MICHELLE ABRAHAM In the highly competitive consumer electronics industry, and particularly the rising digital televis... MICHELLE ABRAHAM MICHELLE KWAN MICHELLE WILLIAMS MICHELLE PFEIFFER MICHELLE HODKIN MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE YEOH MICHELLE YEOH I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buff... MICHELLE PHAN MICHELLE YEOH If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosqui... MICHELLE WALKER I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet. MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ I just met Ron Howard. I was such a dork. MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army bra... MICHELLE SHOCKED MICHELLE YEOH MICHELLE HODKIN MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE HODKIN MICHELLE DOCKERY MICHELLE BACHELET MICHELLE MALKIN MICHELLE YEOH I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person. MICHELLE WIE The typical markers are all missing. MICHELLE OBERMAN I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress. MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ I wasn't in any position. My goodness, they had all the right in the world to judge me -- they had n... MICHELLE MONAGHAN MICHELLE MALKIN MICHELLE BACHELET Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities o... MICHELLE FRANKLIN This robust report suggests that the vigorous pace of factory activity ... may not moderate signific... MICHELLE GIRARD My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never st... MICHELLE SHOCKED MICHELLE HODKIN MICHELLE MALKIN I had a girl in Seattle sing 'Hopelessly Devoted to You,' you know, Olivia Newton-John from Grease a... MICHELLE MCNULTY I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake. MICHELLE SHOCKED Transformation is the transitioning of life. MICHELLE TURNER I'm still waiting for him to ask [on boyfriend Andy Scott-Lee]. We have talked about marriage and it... MICHELLE HEATON I lost Brittney at 16; I lost a girlfriend at 34. Someday I want to say I know somebody who has canc... MICHELLE RAMSEY MICHELLE MALKIN MICHELLE PFEIFFER MICHELLE PFEIFFER I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all ... MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ The females are more high-strung. They grew up in a 90-acre veldt and are not as used to human conta... MICHELLE SMURL I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to... MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ MICHELLE OBAMA MICHELLE OBAMA Hopefully my personality will shine through and people will not think I am just a pretty face or wha... MICHELLE MARSH I think we all have our demons and our various shortcomings, and it would be nice if people felt mor... MICHELLE HUNEVEN We're going to be asking our federal witnesses about the grants he's received and the scrutiny such ... MICHELLE GRESS People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult&... MICHELLE SHOCKED MICHELLE HODKIN Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think... MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ MICHELLE YEOH MICHELLE OBAMA In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he w... MICHELLE MACLAREN MICHELLE OBAMA I didn't think we played that poorly against West Memphis. We just didn't block out and rebound very... MICHELLE BIRDSONG MICHELLE HODKIN We have more established breeding pairs than ever. MICHELLE SMURL This is huge. But we've got a lot left to go. We've got to get in there, dig deep and be ready to go... MICHELLE CONNOR Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay... MICHELLE MADOW Why? Why would they just take my daddy away from me? That would be my question; why? MICHELLE JOHNSON It doesn't take much to flood those islands. With a storm surge of 4 to 6 feet, it's still going to ... MICHELLE HUBER MICHELLE PFEIFFER MICHELLE PFEIFFER There are actually a variety of reasons. You can look at the thieves; there are actually types of th... MICHELLE LANHAM Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of s... MICHELLE ZINK Girl, you've been everywhere there's been a microphone and a stage. MICHELLE NIXON EdgesTOSHA MICHELLE MICHELLE PAVER If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards. MICHELLE MOORE A perfect person is easy to love. But when somebody likes all your imperfections, well, that's when ... MICHELLE DALTON The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think ... MICHELLE SHOCKED MICHELLE YEOH MICHELLE MALKIN By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranc... MICHELLE ALEXANDER Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites a... MICHELLE ALEXANDER The liberal philosophy of race relations emphasized the stigma of segregation and the hypocrisy of a... MICHELLE ALEXANDER The Fast and the Furious. MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ We've all watched Matt grow up on camera, but I don't know how many of us have really stopped and ta... MICHELLE BYRD You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance. MICHELLE WIE I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the go... MICHELLE WIE My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she re... MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner. MICHELLE SHERIDAN MICHELLE BACHELET
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. 
Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they t... 
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian th... 
'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. 
Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names - my last name is Weir. That's very, ve... 
What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we'... 
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. 
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. 
There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine. 
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ... 
This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... 
We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren&... 
Bob Fosse, even though he wasn't gay. He was certainly queer and had a huge effect on the 'H... 
It is a lie. 
Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had t... 
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer 
When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everythin... 
I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people w... 
Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a que... 
I never said a guy who wears glasses is a queer. A guy who wears glasses is a four-eyes; a guy who's... 
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to peopl... 
Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's t... 
The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... 
There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I... 
If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy l... 
Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. 
We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encour... 
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We... 
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot... 
We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if ... 
It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to... 
My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or reb... 
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who sho... 
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anythin... 
I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies. 
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influe... 
We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume... 
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're... 
I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of ve... 
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. 
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... 
I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they d... 
I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't... 
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe wo... 
A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren... 
You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ... 
People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves. 
The trend I'm seeing is like a postmodern approach to queer experience, more like stretching the bou... 
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l... 
I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - o... 
I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them t... 
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be l... 
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. ... 
I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise... 
Writing was the antijob, the fuck you to all jobs, her claim on her autonomy, what kept her feral an... 
You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be. 
I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and ... 
Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least ... 
I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie. 
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Pl... 
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're sc... 
One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide wom... 
During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural ro... 
What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy ... 
He shrugged. “I have a stomach thing. Don’t get close.”
We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possib... 
You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you."
I was born with a fierce need for independence. 
Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It... 
It's really up to the committee to choose who they believe will be the best three skaters in America... 
One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is m... 
Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language. 
Jackie Chan is like a big bro to me. 
Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That's where it's comi... 
I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses. 
We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I... 
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix ... 
Unfortunately, this is very bad news for the White House -- and not just because of the inevitable l... 
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside... 
Having a full-blown company is just something that I don't have the time for now, ... I was just sta... 
I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women...