Amor Towles Quotes

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole mature realm of accomplishments and responsibilities, an identity outside of being a writer.

Amor Towles

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I have had no plastic surgery on my face. Can I leave it at that?

Jennifer Flavin

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Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

John Reid

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Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live.

Tony Dungy

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'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

Ron Fournier

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Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Michio Kaku

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As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

Mona Eltahawy

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Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.

Monique Roffey

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I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.

Missy Peregrym

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Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

Dirk Nowitzki

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Fame is a funny thing. I like doing normal things. I like going to fairs. I like going to ball games. I like going to Disney World or a big field on the Fourth of July and having picnics with friends. The problem is you're either worried you're going to be recognized, or you're thankful you're not. It's always there.

Chris Evans

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You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

Cindy Crawford

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Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there and all the comic book writers I know and then a lot of actors, too, and you hang out with these people for just a few days, but you hang out with them all day, every day. It's like camp - it's like a weird camp. I love it.

Brea Grant

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