"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

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“When you start out as a band, you stake your claim and you go for it. And there's a part of you that dreams it and imagines it and does everything to get there, but you can't ever expect to sell 8, 10, 12, 20 million albums. It becomes this thing that you really have to figure out as you go.”

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“I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.”
“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
“I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking well, whatever one thinks, and therefore acting well, whatever one does.”
“We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.”
“Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.”
“Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.”
“Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.”

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