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Alan Furst Quotes

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hope Better You Write Get Books

I think women sometimes stop flirting with their husbands, and you can't. Men want to want feel good - they want to feel like their women love them. When they come home from work, don't start nagging them with questions. Go up to them and give them a big kiss and ask them how their day was.

Jessie James Decker

Work Love Good Home Women Day

Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.

Fear Chocolate Fancy Factory His

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

Time Experience Purpose Spiritual

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

Support Country Way Shame Been Our

I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.

Me Youth Reading Think Pretty Saved

People who go to Oxford and Cambridge are often unproductive. What am I saying? This is nonsense. No, sometimes they get so competitive that, unless they're going to be Pulitzer prize-winning, they can't get off their backside.

People Saying Go Sometimes Nonsense

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

Powerful Aim Satire Cruel Powerless

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

God Time Purpose Used Us Than

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

Tea People Me Saying Country Up

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

Work Long Songwriting Desperation

I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.

Work Look Looks First Impressions Up

The color grading in 'Peaky' is a huge, huge element of the show's distinctive style, you know?

Style Color You Know Show Element

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