Alan Furst Quotes
For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!
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To see far is one thing, going there is another.
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I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.
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Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
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I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.
