Alan Furst Quotes
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any...
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What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.
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In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.
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The holy grail for me is just stand-up - It's always been that. If I can just tour and headline in stand-up, that's the dream. But I'll do anything that looks like fun, y'know?
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People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.
