Alan Furst Quotes
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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I'm looking to make history.
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Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about.
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.
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I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who didn’t really care much about what people thought about them.. but I don’t think I am.
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
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I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.
