Alan Furst Quotes
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.
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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
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If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.
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I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...
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I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
