Anthony Marra Quotes

You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.

Anthony Marra

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I've been incredibly fortunate to have so many people believe in me.

Jessie Buckley

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The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

John Engler

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One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

Jeffrey Bell

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As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

Stephanie Coontz

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I have given to Democrats in the past. I've always believed in supporting the best candidate at the time.

Steve Mnuchin

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I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.

Robin Givhan

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I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

Ritchie Blackmore

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Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

Rowan Williams

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Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles - has been called by scholars the source of all modern political prose.

Mike Quigley

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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Lou Holtz

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Winter makes me want to rage. You know how there's road rage? I feel like in New York or upstate New York, you're just like, 'Dammit,' because you're so cold.

Liza Lapira

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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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