Anthony Marra Quotes
I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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A man can never dream these kinds of thingsEspecially when she came and spread her wingsWhispered in my ear the things I'd likeThen she flew away into the night.
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There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.
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As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.
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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
