Alan Furst Quotes
I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.Alan Furst
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
Rachael Ray -
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
Felix Baumgartner -
Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
Kate Moss -
When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
Ralph Brown -
If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
Dana Brunetti -
Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
Hansika Motwani
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
All my life I have fought corruption.
A. K. Antony -
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
Dan Futterman -
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge -
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
Zosia Mamet
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
Saif Ali Khan -
I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
Fidel Castro -
I believe in music.
Zubin Mehta -
I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
Lane Garrison -
A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.
Kumar Mangalam Birla -
The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
Finn Wittrock -
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.
Martin Jacques -
I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.
Alan Furst