Anthony Marra Quotes
Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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I'm not a control freak.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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I always drive like a madman.
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Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
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I don't take time off.
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It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
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Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
