Alan Furst Quotes
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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'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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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
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Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
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Sometimes I'm sexy, and sometimes I'm not.
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My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
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Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
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I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.
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I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.
