Alan Furst Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I'm a little angry in life.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
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I like to get real pretty.
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The people know the salt of the sea and the strength of the winds lashing the corners of the earth. The people take the earth as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope. Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
