Anthony Marra Quotes
Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.
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For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
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I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.
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Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
