Anthony Marais Quotes
The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
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I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.
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Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
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Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
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Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.
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The question is, what are we going to do about it?
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.
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The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?
