Amor Towles Quotes
While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.
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A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.
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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
