Alan Furst Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
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My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'
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You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.
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Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.
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A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.
