Alan Furst Quotes

I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Spiritual

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • You
  • Economy

• I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Inspiration
  • Complexity
  • Humour

• I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Job
  • Success

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Know
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

  Wale
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Talking

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
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• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Like
  • Special
  • Old

• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Spring
  • Falsehood
  • Perennial

• I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

  

  Halsey
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• I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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  • Girl
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• So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • People
  • Audience
  • Twitter

• I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Looking Forward
  • Shah Rukh Khan

• We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

  

  David Cameron
  • World
  • Chinese

• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Character
  • True

• I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Running

• Those Fear and Loathing drawings were only possible for me because of the America's Cup six months earlier, which injected the the drawings with the eerie sense of being there to record the sensations. It was a regurgitation, a psycho-artistic vomit - a creative, cathartic cleansing of my inner being.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • America
  • Fear

• I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.

  

  Alan Furst
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