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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The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.
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My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.
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When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
