My creative workday starts with strong breakfast tea and a few minutes of journaling, both of which help me get my head in the story. So much of story-building for me involves immersing myself in the character and situation I’ll be working on, just the way an actor does when playing a role.
I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I’m an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and somehow race injects itself into the conversation.
If I’m in Italy, I’m going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don’t drink tea in Italy.
There are varying degrees of shade. There is funny shade, warning shade, tea shade, and mean girl shade.
We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one.
British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
I don’t know how to make tea.
I’m not your usual cup of tea.
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
I’m not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend’s hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.
Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn’t all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.
My first-night jitters are so bad, I can’t even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.
When I’m writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.
I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It’s extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.
In ‘Three Cups of Tea’ I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they’re laptop warriors and there’s no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they’ve gone through a tremendous learning curve.
The Tea Party is clearing gunk out of the fuel lines of this country. It started with throwing out Democrats, but the Republicans are going to be next. We’re doing what needs to be done for the sake of the country.
A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl’s room.
Where I live, there is a group of fans who take me out to tea every year to pick my brains about what’s coming up.
I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.
Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam – in my steam shower. I find it’s very healing, more than just your typical ‘tea and honey.’
I accept I am not everyone’s cup of tea, but judge me over a period of time.
I would say the best trick I’ve pulled was putting salt instead of sugar in Phil Neville’s tea.
Tea Party sympathizers are more conservative on abortion policy than typical Republicans.
Deep down I’m just a suburban Adelaide boy who likes to have a nice burger at Tea Tree Plaza and go to movies on Cheap Tuesday.
I feel like I see more and more Neapolitan style, that I call ‘fancy pizza’ – that’s not my cup of tea; I think it all tastes the same.
When I travel in Tamil Nadu for shooting, I make it a point to eat at roadside eateries and drink tea/coffee at a tea stall.
I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
It’s something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he’d say, ‘Oh, good stuff, isn’t it?’
I always start my discussions with the Tea Party groups with telling them, ‘you know I have only three words for you: God. Bless. You.’ Because the Tea Party’s bringing the Republican party back to a more conservative base.
Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It’s not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
Green tea is known to have catechins, and that has a powerful anti-cancer effect.
You’d be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond – topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
If Japanese tea ‘stands,’ it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.
I’m such a good sleeper that I can have tea any time of day, and I will have no problem taking a nap. I’m a professional napper.
The difference between the American version of ‘Live Aid’ and the British one – in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
The Tea Party was really a two-front war – one against Obama, the other against any Republican politician who reeked of insiderdom or insufficient purity.
I’m not much of a coffee person, but when I wake up and the sun is shining through the window, I’ll get a lil’ bit of green tea and get to work.
One of the beauties of the Tea Party movement – and the many, many like-minded citizens that don’t participate in the Tea Party movement – is the fact that it is independent.
Voters did say ‘repeal health care’, they did say ‘reduce the size of government.’ But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said ‘give tax breaks to the wealthiest.’
I’m actually not a big coffee fan, so I don’t drink it that much. I’d rather have a green tea. But I do love to get a white mocha sometimes – it is just a strong order.
I know within my organization, within the grassroots of my organization of the Tea Party movement generally, there’s going to be a big drive for impeaching Obama. I don’t know if that’s the right move… We need to play our cards very carefully and beware of the mouse trap that Obama might be trying to set for us.
The Tea Party loves Reagan because he said exactly what they want to hear.
The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you’re not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.
I wouldn’t recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley.
It’s nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking – but I’m down here eating pretty for two weeks and I’m ready to go back to New York City.
I don’t drink any soda. None at all. Just water with lemon. If I need something different: iced tea. I don’t have anything like protein shakes.
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That’s true.
To some extent, the mainstream’s absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.
The problem with the Tea Party is that it’s been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that’s counter to their own interests.
I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There’s something in the milk. They must have special cows.
I was fairly solitary. I didn’t like structured learning. People didn’t seem to be my cup of tea.
Hands down, ‘The Family Man’ is one of my favorite movies with Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. I’ve always loved that movie… it’s pretty special. I also love ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ and ‘Home Alone’ – I think it’s really funny.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
The Maori culture is different than our culture where we’re most likely to introduce ourselves by email or fax and we conduct a lot of business in an impersonal way, whereas for Maori, the only way to do it is to make the pilgrimage and sit down face-to-face and have some tea.
