Anthony Marra Quotes

There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.

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• If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • You
  • Stability

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
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• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Reality

• It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Believe
  • America
  • Understand

• How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Alone

• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Find

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• I think I've been inspired by Chris and his ability to be raw and genuine and admit flaws and let it be whatever it is. That's something I'm trying to do, too, is just be real... That way ends up being very healing with people.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Story
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Think

• I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Job
  • Year
  • Week

• When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Stop
  • Film
  • First

• When, one day, you have made your mark on the world, remember that, in the ultimate analysis, we are all mere temporary custodians of the wealth we generate, whether it be financial, intellectual, or emotional. The best use of all your wealth is to share it with those less fortunate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Remember
  • Emotional

• Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Lies

• A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis. (p. 5).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Horse

• The highlight of my career was being at the inaugural gala of Ronald Reagan, and I owe that to Mr. Sinatra.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Career

• The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

  

  Bernard Iddings Bell
  • Money
  • Character
  • Education

• I'm into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It's just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Positive

• For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Country
  • Why

• Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • Country
  • Single

• There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.

  

  Anthony Marra