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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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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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.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
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One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
