Alan Furst Quotes
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I fell in love with doing yoga.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.
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The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.
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In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
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I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
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I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
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If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.
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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
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If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.
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I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
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I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.
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Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
