Alan Furst Quotes
For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.
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I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do.
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I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
