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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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that.
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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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He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.
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I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
