Anthony Marra Quotes

When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.

Anthony Marra

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Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.

Joe Jackson

NeverMeanKidUpLikeHe

A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to hunt boar and deer - is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.

John Burnside

KingForestBackPlaceNewWood

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

Maynard James Keenan

HomeForestEdgeRightArizona

'Game Change,' the infamous bestseller written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has plagued anyone directly associated with the 2008 election cycle.

Meghan McCain

ChangeGameElectionMarkCycle

If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.

Max von Essen

WarWorldFeelEarlyBornParis

I love fashion, but fashion is not my whole life.

John Rocha

LifeLoveFashionWholeI Love

America is good enough for us.

John Sergeant Wise

GoodAmericaEnoughUs

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal

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Dancing has always helped in keeping my fitness levels high. When I was in school and college, I used to dance a lot. It helped me stay healthy.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

GrowthGreatImaginationIntelligence

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

Jason Mraz

LoveCreativeSleepEnergyHotelGo

There's nothing like having a football coach yelling at you at homecoming in front of a bunch of people. You do kind of get used to being inflappable in front of all that heated emotion. At times, that's very useful in business.

Suzan DelBene

BusinessFootballPeopleYouKind

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