Alan Furst Quotes
When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
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We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.
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I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
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I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a one-guard all over, and then I started growing it out. When I had Tommy John, that was the last time it was buzzed. I've grown it ever since then.
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I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them.
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I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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Farewell count without a head
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Simplify always - do not complicate.
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When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
