Alan Furst Quotes
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
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Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
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As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.
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Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
