Alan Furst Quotes
I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
Alan Furst
Quotes to Explore
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
Rabih Alameddine
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
Hanya Yanagihara
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
M. Ward
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
Victoria Clark
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
E. W. Howe
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
Viktor Orban
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
Patricia Clarkson
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
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If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.
Charles K. Kao
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In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.
Ian Mcewan
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
Vikram Seth
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We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
Ellen Ochoa
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You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.
Trisha Yearwood
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I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
Alan Furst
