Alan Furst Quotes
Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
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Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
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I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.
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For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.
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In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.
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Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
