Amor Towles Quotes
I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.
Quotes to Explore
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
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You can't really imagine music without technology.
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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
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I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.
