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“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.”

People Stories America Reading Next Cities Watches New York Conversation Tables Train Newspapers Restaurants Subway

Author:Bill Geist

“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.”

Real Hard Play Character Film Games Class Watches Morning Middle Television Balls Real Life Restaurants Middle Class Lunch Competent Practise Ball Games Clarinet Middle Class Life

Author:Woody Allen

“Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?”

Source: Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On

“I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.”

Father Watches Machines Get Up Clock Restaurants Shopping Eastern Detroit Vending Machines

Author:Ed Bradley

“I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."”

Hands Night Watches Modern Television Couple Hero Late Dinner Get Up Restaurants Modern Life Champagne Waiter Late Night Old Movie Posh

Author:Robert Orben

“Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.”

Men Littles War Bigs Next Left Watches Worry Fire Wise Approach Smoke Decent Restaurants Neighborhood Horizon Warning

Book:Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel