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Alan Furst Quotes

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Good I Am Ambition Escape High

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Robert Smith

Good Music Musicians Political Vice

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

Anna Popplewell

I Am Doing Acting Student Drama Am

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

Michael Cristofer

Love Falling In Love Done First Mine

When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.

Martin O'Malley

Together War Free Black Immigrants

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

Martin Scorsese

Rare Where Used Artists Giant Often

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

Clare Boothe Luce

Red Blue Face White Talk Themselves

I think Afghanistan has turned into the Vietnam of my generation, only with a better homecoming.

Brandon Webb

Think Generation Better Afghanistan

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Susan Sontag

Thought Signs Universal Only

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

Paul Westerberg

You Lights Done Way Band See

In all the years with WWE, I never really got to really establish the branding of The Showstopper as well as I would have liked to.

Shawn Michaels

Never Years Got Well WWE Would

Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.

Noreena Hertz

Children Parents People Retirement

I'm fighting for Marine Le Pen to become president.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Fighting Pen Become President Marine