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 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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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
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I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.
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I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
