Anthony Marra Quotes
I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.
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Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)
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To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
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I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.
