Alan Furst Quotes
Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.
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I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy.
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I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.
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I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.
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Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.
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According to Twitter 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.
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Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
