Alan Furst Quotes

I invented the historical spy novel.

Alan Furst

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• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Period
  • State

• I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • War
  • Army

• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Role
  • Written

• Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Design

• I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Breathe

• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Past

• Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Character
  • Death
  • Parents

• Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that we cannot just set the tax policy and presume that it does not require continual review and adjustment.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Smart
  • Tax
  • Finding

• The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Catching
  • Solid
  • Outfield

• Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Difficult

• I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Alone

• My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Great
  • Great Things

• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Audition

• We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Know
  • Focus

• We've got to help each other, seeing as God doesn't help us. Do you see how great Jesus' idea was? Imagine how much it must have irritated God. Forget the devil, Jesus was the only true enemy of God, and he's the only friend us poor wretches have.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • God
  • True

• Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'

  

  Carl Jung

• It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Book
  • True
  • Planning

• People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Great

• I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Style
  • Canvas

• I invented the historical spy novel.

  

  Alan Furst