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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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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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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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
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If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.
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A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.
