Alan Furst Quotes

What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.

Jeremy Rifkin

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I came to 'RuPaul's Drag Race' late: I didn't get into the show until its fourth or fifth season.

Jenna Wortham

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

John Updike

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I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

Sophie Okonedo

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I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

Lisa Kudrow

GoodMyselfManGood PersonYou

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

Jonny Greenwood

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Being in a class with kids, meeting new people, and borrowing notes from other students - I've never done that before. I've always had to fend for myself.

Chloe Kim

MyselfPeopleMeetingNewDone

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.

Bobby Unser

NobodyGuyWhoSecondFinished

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

Philomena Kwao

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I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

Princess Eugenie of York

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You always need to make sure that you're looking at every angle and every perspective so that people, when they read the story, know what's happening. You have to write for everyone.

Marley Dias

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It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

Kevin J. Anderson

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