Anthony Marra Quotes
At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
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I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.
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I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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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.
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When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.
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When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.
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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.
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I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.
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37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.
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At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
