Amor Towles Quotes

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

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• The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Different
  • Best
  • Actor

• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Travel

• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Creative
  • Others

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Food

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Dumb
  • Even

• I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Man
  • First

• Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Family
  • Death

• I hate birthdays.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hate
  • Birthdays

• It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bounce

• I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Wife

• Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Live
  • Myself
  • Conscience

• So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Question

• Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

  

  B. B. King
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Poetry

• I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • Guy

• I don't have many friends, but I want to retain the ones I have.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • Friends

• Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Nature