Alan Furst Quotes
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
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I run five miles three times a week; I log everything. I look up routes when I travel.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
