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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No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' wasn't about me.
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The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.
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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
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A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.
