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Alan Furst Quotes

When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 20, 1941

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Good Words I Am Detail Book Three

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

John Boyne

Passion Hope Time Myself Memory

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

Jenna Dewan

Ahead Most Careers Getting Consumed

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

John Sandford

Writing You Look Find Down Nice

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

John Podhoretz

Direction Internet Back Understand

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

Travis Fimmel

Work Farm Furniture Done Always

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Roger Moore

Business Money Past People Been Who

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

Mary Lambert

Life Learning Identity Me Limits

Batman is like the audience's eyes and ears in 'Justice League Dark.'

Jason O'Mara

Eyes Justice Dark Audience Ears

Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

Jon Oringer

People Organization You Information

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

Diane Lane

Good Think Fake I Can Way Things

As a kid, I really wasn't thinkin' about no golf.

Boo Weekley

Golf Kid About Really

I don't know if referees look at me differently; you'd have to ask them. I hope everybody gets treated the same, but I know that it doesn't always happen.

Arjen Robben

Hope Me You Look Know Ask