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Alan Furst Quotes

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Random Story House More

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Jessica Valenti

Book Professionalism Believing Run

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

Amanda Lindhout

Travel Me Hard Because Vital Plane

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Democracy Think Always Something

This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.

Vision Ignorance Genius Early New

I think it's possible to have a vision for your life that goes beyond any circumstance of anything that you've ever seen, and I encourage people to do that. But I don't think that any of us can do that in a vacuum.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Life Vision People Think You Beyond

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative.

Home Time Day Creative School Sorry

I'm a geek. A techie geek.

Travis Kalanick

I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me being a bad person sometimes and doing things I regret. Such as having a child with someone you've split up with, then falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone else. That's quite difficult.

Life Love Myself Child Me Rest

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Name You Big Seems Last Just

Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. But we aren't born liking salt - we develop a taste for it at about 6 months.

Born Salt Sugar Taste Liking Our

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

Hate Blue Little Things Pink Wish

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Society Violence Divorce Plague

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