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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A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.
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Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.
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When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me.
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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?
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You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.
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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.
