Alan Furst Quotes
When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.
Alan Furst
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
Harold Ramis
I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
Lara Stone
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
Mahershala Ali
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking
Oh, sweet it is, where grass is deepAnd swifts are overhead,To lie and watch the clouds, and weepFor friends already dead.
Enoch Powell
And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation.
Ben Lerner
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
Karin Slaughter
I used to wish that I could write songs, like the others-and I've tried, but I just can't. I can get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune the others always say it sounds like such-a-thing, and when they point it out, I see what they mean.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.
Raghuram Rajan
When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.
Alan Furst
