Amor Towles Quotes
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
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The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
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Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.
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I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.
