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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I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.
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I don't think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them and get to know about their lives.
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Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
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I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
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I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.
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People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.
