Anthony Marra Quotes

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

Anthony Marra

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More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.

Jerome Powell

BestProblemMoreAnswerRegulation

In Minnesota, we tend to be a little more open to immigration.

Amy Klobuchar

ImmigrationMoreOpenMinnesotaTend

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Steve Blank

SuccessLongMeanHoursNecessarily

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Sidney Sheldon

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I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

Trae Young

ChangeShoesGameLongPlayMatter

If you get a sense that your writing isn't quite working, change it. Or cut it out. Don't just tell yourself it'll do, because it won't.

Michelle Paver

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I'm not a predictable black liberal.

Juan Williams

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I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?

Dinesh D'Souza

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After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution.

Devin Ratray

SchoolDoingTryingBackIndependent

I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

Christina Aguilera

LoveBusinessBodySidesOutNoise

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

Ari Fleischer

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The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Philip Warren Anderson

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