Steven Amsterdam Quotes
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
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Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
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I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
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Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.
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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.
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It's something we're watching, but not with great concern, ... I think there is room in the world for another major currency and this was one is certainly welcome.
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How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
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I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.
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Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
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The toilets are flushing great in the locker room.
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.
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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
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It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.
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The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.
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In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
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Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.
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I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
