Alan Furst Quotes
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.
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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
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I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.
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I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.
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Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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Trying to defeat an ideology by killing individuals is like trying to save a marriage with a blowjob. It might buy you some time, but in the end it'll just suck. 3.
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We are not all the same. If you care that much, if you're that invested in us as artists and the changes that we're trying to make and the work that we're putting out there, then at least give us the same decency and respect to know that I am not Yara Shahidi and never will I be.
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For me, playing is about playing with other people.
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Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
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How do you establish online friends by talking about the weather?
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
