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.
Taron Egerton -
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll -
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.
Tab Hunter -
If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel
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I'm not really into weight training.
Yunjin Kim -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
Abhishek Bachchan -
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.
Aaron Eckhart -
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!
Dan Fogelberg -
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.
Rachel Johnson -
Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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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.
Kate Bernheimer -
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.
Vanessa Hudgens -
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.
Edmund Phelps -
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.
Sally Hawkins -
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
Octavia Spencer
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Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.
Chris Hedges -
But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
Wayne Newton -
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
Patrick Chan -
In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.
Mark Goddard -
I've always liked lost, old New York.
Alan Furst