Anthony Marra Quotes

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

Anthony Marra

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Learning
  • Much
  • Perfecting

• I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Always
  • Find
  • I Can

• I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Boring

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  

  Francine Pascal
  • People
  • Same
  • Piano

• Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Me

• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Great
  • Different
  • Women

• A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

  

  Halle Berry
  • She
  • Person
  • Self-Esteem

• To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Men
  • Culture
  • End

• I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Real
  • Same

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Day
  • Problem

• On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • Mind
  • Simple

• With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Action
  • Back
  • Edgy

• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  

  Vanna White
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Soup

• As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Opportunities
  • Grow

• If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Goals

• Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • World
  • Political
  • Taken

• Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz

• I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.

  

  Niels Arden Oplev
  • Choices
  • Animal
  • Filmmaking

• At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

  

  Anthony Marra