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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
TEA OBREHT I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
TEA OBREHT When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when yo...
TEA OBREHT I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
TEA OBREHT You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happe...
TEA OBREHT What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
TEA OBREHT I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
TEA OBREHT In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life ...
TEA OBREHT I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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 My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
TEA OBREHT The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
TEA OBREHT I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
TEA OBREHT In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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 At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical eleme...
TEA OBREHT When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going...
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![]()
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, an...
YOKO ONO My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
ALIA SHAWKAT![]()
My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,
WINSTON CHURCHILL My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes an...
WYCLEF JEAN When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had...
NATALIE DORMER My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
SAUL LEITER I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ...
STACEY BENDET My parents were very close in everything they did.
LINDA MAXWELL My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmot...
CLARE BOWEN![]()
'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink...
WINSTON CHURCHILL My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father,...
KELLI O'HARA My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu...
TIM MURPHY I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francais...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous ...
PETE DU PONT![]()
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
WOODY ALLEN![]()
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who w...
CLARENCE THOMAS![]()
I am very attached to this watch. My grandfather sold it to me when he was dying.
WOODY ALLEN I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
ELSA PERETTI Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
ZOLA BUDD Treat anger like gold. Spend it wisely or not at all.
GRANDFATHER When you are standing on the edge of a cliff a step forward is not progress.
GRANDFATHER The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Walla...
HAMPTON SIDES They were all very close.
JEAN RUSSELL![]()
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
WOODY ALLEN![]()
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al...
CARLOS FUENTES There were six very close encounters.
BILL JOY Tea is tea, nothing can compete my tea
IRFA ADAM![]()
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my...
HENRY FORD I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fidd...
RENEE FLEMING![]()
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON It's probably a size 55. This is a project my grandfather and I did in the 70s one snowy winter when...
MICHAEL MONTALTO I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid ha...
DONALD HALL My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so ...
GENE HACKMAN I am very happy and delighted. It will make me feel very close to my fans.
LI YUCHUN![]()
My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and gra...
MARCO RUBIO I have a very close relationship with my parents.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few...
CALISTA FLOCKHART![]()
I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
S. T. JOSHI![]()
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some...
WARREN BEATTY I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so th...
SIGMAR POLKE![]()
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember m...
JAMES E. FAUST It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be very p...
GILLIAN APPS We were very close, and we shared each others' joys and sorrows.
JOHN COLLINS![]()
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I w...
WINSTON CHURCHILL![]()
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced o...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER![]()
I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industr...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH![]()
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m...
ISABEL ALLENDE My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his dea...
ALIKO DANGOTE![]()
Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a grea...
JEREMY CORBYN Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.
IRVING CAESAR![]()
We were very close. We hunted everything with hair and feathers together.
JOHNNY MILLER![]()
My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known o...
DWAYNE JOHNSON My fiancée and I became very close to him, ... He was very giving, good-natured, and never turned y...
ANDREW DICE CLAY We really did get along. We were very close and we'd spend four nights a week eating out together. S...
CLIFF DRYSDALE![]()
My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader,
WINSTON CHURCHILL I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON![]()
I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
FERGIE Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and two for tea
IRVING CAESAR My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.
DAVID MONK![]()
I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.
KID CUDI![]()
I always loved that boy as if he'd been my-- my-- my own grandfather.
CHARLES DICKENS One of my co-workers said that cricket lovers were naturally anally retentive. I told him to shut up...
DAVE PENNEY I get to tell them, ?no, that?s my grandfather?.
JACK ARUTE![]()
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my g...
TRACY MORGAN My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
TONY HALE![]()
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
YOGI BERRA![]()
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL![]()
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
NIK WALLENDA Both my father and grandfather were entrepreneurs, in Cleveland. I was exposed to startups and buyou...
JIM KUNEVICIUS![]()
I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.
ANDY WILLIAMS Before the game, at half-time, he shook my hand and he hugged me. That is the kind of friendship he ...
DANNY MAESTAS![]()
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
TOM CRUISE My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.
STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. I was very...
MICHAEL EKLUND I was working there and thinking about my grandfather, an ironworker who was a Teamster.
JOANNE KNOEBEL My fiancée and I became very close to him, ... He was very giving, good-natured, and...
ANDREW CLAY![]()
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
DAVE VAN RONK I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.
JACK DAVENPORT
TEA OBREHT I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
TEA OBREHT When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when yo...
TEA OBREHT I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
TEA OBREHT You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happe...
TEA OBREHT What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
TEA OBREHT I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
TEA OBREHT In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life ...
TEA OBREHT I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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 My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
TEA OBREHT The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
TEA OBREHT I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
TEA OBREHT In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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 At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical eleme...
TEA OBREHT When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going...
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
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, an... YOKO ONO My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
ALIA SHAWKAT
My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather, WINSTON CHURCHILL My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes an...
WYCLEF JEAN When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had...
NATALIE DORMER My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
SAUL LEITER I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ...
STACEY BENDET My parents were very close in everything they did.
LINDA MAXWELL My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmot...
CLARE BOWEN
'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink... WINSTON CHURCHILL My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father,...
KELLI O'HARA My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu...
TIM MURPHY I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francais...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous ...
PETE DU PONT
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. WOODY ALLEN
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who w... CLARENCE THOMAS
I am very attached to this watch. My grandfather sold it to me when he was dying. WOODY ALLEN I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
ELSA PERETTI Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
ZOLA BUDD Treat anger like gold. Spend it wisely or not at all.
GRANDFATHER When you are standing on the edge of a cliff a step forward is not progress.
GRANDFATHER The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Walla...
HAMPTON SIDES They were all very close.
JEAN RUSSELL
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. WOODY ALLEN
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al... CARLOS FUENTES There were six very close encounters.
BILL JOY Tea is tea, nothing can compete my tea
IRFA ADAM
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my... HENRY FORD I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fidd...
RENEE FLEMING
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male. S. E. HINTON It's probably a size 55. This is a project my grandfather and I did in the 70s one snowy winter when...
MICHAEL MONTALTO I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid ha...
DONALD HALL My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so ...
GENE HACKMAN I am very happy and delighted. It will make me feel very close to my fans.
LI YUCHUN
My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and gra... MARCO RUBIO I have a very close relationship with my parents.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few...
CALISTA FLOCKHART
I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea. S. T. JOSHI
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so th...
SIGMAR POLKE
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember m... JAMES E. FAUST It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be very p...
GILLIAN APPS We were very close, and we shared each others' joys and sorrows.
JOHN COLLINS
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.Churchill: Nancy, if I w...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced o... DAVID ROCKEFELLER
I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industr... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m... ISABEL ALLENDE My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his dea...
ALIKO DANGOTE
Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a grea... JEREMY CORBYN Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.
IRVING CAESAR
We were very close. We hunted everything with hair and feathers together. JOHNNY MILLER
My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known o... DWAYNE JOHNSON My fiancée and I became very close to him, ... He was very giving, good-natured, and never turned y...
ANDREW DICE CLAY We really did get along. We were very close and we'd spend four nights a week eating out together. S...
CLIFF DRYSDALE
My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader, WINSTON CHURCHILL I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON
I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it. FERGIE Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and two for tea
IRVING CAESAR My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.
DAVID MONK
I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage. KID CUDI
I always loved that boy as if he'd been my-- my-- my own grandfather. CHARLES DICKENS One of my co-workers said that cricket lovers were naturally anally retentive. I told him to shut up...
DAVE PENNEY I get to tell them, ?no, that?s my grandfather?.
JACK ARUTE
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my g... TRACY MORGAN My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
TONY HALE
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. YOGI BERRA
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in ... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. NIK WALLENDA Both my father and grandfather were entrepreneurs, in Cleveland. I was exposed to startups and buyou...
JIM KUNEVICIUS
I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it. ANDY WILLIAMS Before the game, at half-time, he shook my hand and he hugged me. That is the kind of friendship he ...
DANNY MAESTAS
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me. TOM CRUISE My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.
STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. I was very...
MICHAEL EKLUND I was working there and thinking about my grandfather, an ironworker who was a Teamster.
JOANNE KNOEBEL My fiancée and I became very close to him, ... He was very giving, good-natured, and...
ANDREW CLAY
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. CHUCK BERRY My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
DAVE VAN RONK I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.
JACK DAVENPORT
I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie. 
I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them,... 
Shopping turns me off. 
Older Fags and Younger Fags, Like Legally Young. Daddies. Zeus and Ganymede.
I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise... 
I’m A Queer Poet Too! She stressed queer not because she walked around identifying as a que... 