Amor Towles Quotes
I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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History's a resource.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
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Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
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I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.
