Alan Furst Quotes
French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
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People take things so seriously.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
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Bios are always so dull and boring.
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Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
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French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
