Anthony Marra Quotes
You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.Anthony Marra
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner -
I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
Orhan Pamuk -
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
Tavi Gevinson -
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
Kate Fleetwood
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
Ian Hacking -
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
Barbra Streisand -
Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
Natalie Cole -
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
Manny Pacquiao -
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian Hacking -
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
J. G. Ballard
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon -
I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
Laura Trott -
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton -
Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
Yusuf Hamied -
People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
Cameron Crowe
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I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.
Tom Scholz Boston -
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
Richard Scott Bakker -
When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.
James Van Der Beek -
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
Homer -
I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
Quinn Shephard -
You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.
Anthony Marra