Alan Furst Quotes
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.
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Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
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I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.
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Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
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'That narrow window, I expect, Serves but to let the dusk in - ' 'But please,' said I, 'to recollect 'Twas fashioned by an architect Who pinned his faith on Ruskin!'
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
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What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges
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If you're a writer, you're always working.
