Alan Furst Quotes
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
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In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.
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I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.
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You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.
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I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.
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It is so cool to be able to stand as a witness of Christ and to be able to be proud of it and be part of His army.
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To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
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I don't like to try very hard. Most of the time it's just jeans, a T-shirt and Converse trainers. Casual, comfortable and boyish is how I'd describe my look. The way people wear clothes makes them stylish, rather than the clothes themselves.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
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I'm not really a mass market writer.
