Alan Furst Quotes
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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.
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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.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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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.
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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
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I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
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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.
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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!
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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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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.
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We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism.
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China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.
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Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.
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Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.
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I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.
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80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
