Amor Towles Quotes

In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.

Amor Towles

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I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?

Jessi Klein

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It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.

Joel Salatin

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I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.

Jenny Lewis

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The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

Jennifer Aniston

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I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

Matthew Perry

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Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionally calming.

Michael Dirda

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I was very girly growing up; I loved pink and doing my makeup and doing my hair and painting my nails.

Mia Goth

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People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

Amanda Hocking

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My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

Stan Van Gundy

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I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Rob Lowe

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Football is like life and I know life.

Rush Limbaugh

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