Alan Furst Quotes
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.
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Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.
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For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
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I love writing.
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I seldom look back.
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I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
