Amor Towles Quotes
What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I think if a movie makes you cry, you probably needed to cry.
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If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
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I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.
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Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?
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What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.
