Anna Funder Quotes

I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
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  • Necessity
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• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
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• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
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• Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  

  Larry Flynt
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• People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

  

  Abu Bakr
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  • Sound

• That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • World
  • Science
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• Mes amis, l’amour est cent fois meilleur que la haine. L’espoir est meilleur que la peur. L’optimisme est meilleur que le désespoir. Alors aimons, gardons espoir et restons optimistes. Et nous changerons le monde.

  

  Jack Layton

• I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
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• Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • America

• Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

  

  Jerry Saltz
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• I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

  

  Brynn Cartelli

• If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

  

  Kelly Lynch
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• There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Up
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• Some people think I've had a nose job. I've never had anything like that done, but I have no judgement of anyone that does.

  

  Jessica Chastain
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• Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'

  

  Lee Pace
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• You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.

  

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• I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

  

  Derek Waters
  • School
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• The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Decision
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• Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Dream
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• I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

  

  Anna Funder
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