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
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• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• 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

• In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
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• 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
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  • Apple

• I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Play

• 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

• In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Future
  • Society
  • Giving

• My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Dark
  • Ambition
  • Teenager

• It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Company
  • Cooking
  • Meal

• I felt like if I was on Facebook, I would probably spend my days looking at people's profiles, seeing what they do, and feeling bad about not working enough.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Facebook

• Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Why
  • Running
  • Mean

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

  

  Anthony Marra