Anthony Marra Quotes

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

Anthony Marra

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The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

Jewel

NightNeverWriteShowDifferent

If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component.

Andrew Solomon

AgeExperienceLanguageYouLook

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

John Searle

CarNothingUnderstandWillSense

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

Amy Bloom

BeautyHappinessProblemGloryReal

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

Steve Buscemi

CharacterEndAlwaysSeeUpGet

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

Tom Sizemore

BlessedNowActorRightPosition

Being a WWE performer and doing all the different things we get to do, it can wear on you, and you can learn a lot of stuff about yourself. For me, it always reminds me to just stay humble. Just be yourself, love what you do, and enjoy the ride.

Roman Reigns

LoveHumbleRideYourselfMeLearn

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

Monica Bellucci

TimeRomanticSomeoneYouFindTake

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

Louis MacNeice

CommunityArtPoetryNeedReason

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.

Dennis Muren

WorkThinkYouImportantTalkSee

I was at lunch with some friends one day, and we looked down at our table - blond pasta, blond pizza - and then someone joked, 'Blonde salad,' and it stuck.

Chiara Ferragni

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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

Anthony Bourdain

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