Alan Furst Quotes
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.
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I never lost my appetite for acting.
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There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th. There are so many things that just make you realize that you're not going to live forever and that you have to enjoy every day.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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Although it takes place in Gotham City and fundamentally it is a movie about Batman, Chris wanted us to play everything for truth. The actors he chose for this movie are into realism.
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I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
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I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
