Amor Towles Quotes
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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It's nice to be needed.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.
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I write-down to speak-up.
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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
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I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
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Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
