Anthony Marra Quotes

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

Anthony Marra

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• My daughter is my passion and my life.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Daughter

• If this be treason, make the most of it!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Make
  • Most
  • Treason

• I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Wall

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Own
  • Fortune
  • Scarf

• It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Help

• What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Happy
  • Appreciation

• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

  Vanity
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Child
  • Tree
  • Physical

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Enthusiasm

• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics
  • Stupidity

• It’s not necessarily about seeing an increasing amount of focus and clarity every single day. It’s about noticing whatever is happening in the body and mind each time you sit down to meditate.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Happening
  • Meditate
  • Noticing

• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Human
  • Survival

• I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • Work
  • Leaving
  • Bigs

• I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.

  

  Charlie Weber
  • Work

• Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • School
  • Black
  • Education

• Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Reading
  • Childhood