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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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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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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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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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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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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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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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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Love is so irrational and it's not so easy to start all over again after you had given everything to a relationship.
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We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
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It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
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The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.
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Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
