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 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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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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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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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.
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Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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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.
