Alan Furst Quotes
I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
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I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.
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Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.
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I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.
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I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
