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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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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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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We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.
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The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.
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The thing that makes us root for Spider-Man as he swings across the city is that he's either having the time of his life or worrying about whether he'll be able to get a good grade on that English paper or whether or not he's going to make it home in time for Aunt May to make his dinner.
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Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?
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I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.
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I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
