Alan Furst Quotes
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.Alan Furst
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
Gary Ross -
Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
Carly Rae Jepsen -
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
Marc Andreesen -
Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
Eric Lynn Wright -
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
Octavio Paz -
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
Irving Howe -
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
Edmund Husserl -
I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
Vijender Singh -
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono -
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
Manuel Puig -
The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
Beau Willimon -
I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.
Madhuri Dixit -
I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV.
Kaley Cuoco
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
Hannah Arendt -
That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!
Christopher Miller -
I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
Camille Paglia -
Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.
Jim Morris -
Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
C. S. Lewis -
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
Alan Furst