Alan Furst Quotes
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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The word 'change' has been abused so many times.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.
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A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.
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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
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We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
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While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.
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I've always liked lost, old New York.
