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Alan Furst Quotes

I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I Am Research Try Right Get Am

I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.

Together Thinking Rock Fantasy Band

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

Friends Problem Become Follow Kitten

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Life Happiness Peace Chance Never

No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at once - raising money, writing software, prototyping, selling, collecting, training, and marketing.

Business Money Training Writing

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Me Trying Back Turn Greatest Myth

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

I lived and breathed dancing. It was my everything.

Dancing Everything Lived Breathed

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Great Way Kid Same Hates He

I have always wanted to work with Judy Dench, and that hasn't happened yet, so that would be fun.

Work Fun Always Would Happened Judy

The biggest picture you see is making it to the Super Bowl and winning it. There are a lot of guys who have played 14, 15, 16 years and never been there.

DeAngelo Williams

Winning Picture You Super Bowl Never

The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.

Christina Romer

Change Day New Day People Wake Up

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Good Ready Flexible Virtue Shame

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