Alan Furst Quotes

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Alan Furst

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• The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Know
  • Community
  • Day

• I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Life
  • Train

• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Day

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

  

  Rachel True
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Mythology

• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Along

• I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Personality

• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Never
  • Had
  • Agent

• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Sports
  • Timing
  • Pitching

• I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Die
  • Reading

• Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!

  

  Taliesin
  • Heaven

• The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God

• Quamlibet multa egerimus, quodam tamen modo recentes sumus ad id quod incipimus. quis non obtundi potest, si per totum diem cuiuscunque artis unum magistrum ferat? mutatione recreabitur sicut in cibis, quorum diversitate reficitur stomachus et pluribus minore fastidio alitur.

  

  Quintilian

• We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • Cousin

• I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Control
  • Human
  • Determined

• One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Brain

• My father was not prone to worship, but he worshiped Arthur Sulzberger.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Father

• Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Criticism
  • Avoid
  • Easily

• I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

  

  David Johansen
  • Music
  • Band
  • Rock

• Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

  

  Alan Furst