Anthony Marra Quotes

To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

Anthony Marra

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I think we have to work with Hollywood. We have to work in the system and change it.

Roger Ross Williams

WorkChangeThinkHollywoodSystem

We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

Mary Dillon

JobLookBe PreparedNeverOutUs

Animals raised on corn produce fattier meat, but it's not just that it's fattier, it's the kinds of fats. Corn-fed beef produces lots of saturated fats. So that the heart disease we associate with eating meat is really a problem with corn-fed meat. If you eat grass-fed beef, it has much more of the nutritional profile of the wild meat.

Michael Pollan

HeartEatingProblemYouWildMeat

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

Michael Johnson

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AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

Luc Montagnier

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I will say this - I certainly will not be voting for Hillary Clinton.

Cory Gardner

VotingSayWillHillary Clinton

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

Claire Danes

LifeWomenThinkingOutGoneCould

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Chuck Schumer

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There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.

Allen Iverson

PositiveGoodNothingSomething

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.

Wyatt Cenac

MusicI AmIdentityPeopleListening

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

Pierce Brosnan

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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Rex Stout

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