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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How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?
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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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It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.
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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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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
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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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Beauty has a lot to do with character.
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I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.
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Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
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Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!
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I'm not really a mass market writer.
