Alan Furst Quotes
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.
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Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
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There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.
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Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
