Alan Furst Quotes
I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.
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Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.
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Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
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It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.
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I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
