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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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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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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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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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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The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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My cousin came over to my house one day just to fool around and we said - he said, some day we should start a rock n' roll group. We could all get together. And I said, I know I guy named Al Jardine who plays bass and could probably sing good. You know. So we went from there.
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You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
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Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.
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Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
