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Alan Furst Quotes

Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Women Beautiful Great Culture Care

My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.

Life Father Small Uncle Old Out

It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.

Someone Long You Three Why Explain

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

Rupert Penry-Jones

Theatre World Place Know Boring

A Charlie Brown Christmas' is a national treasure because it delivers beautifully the central miracle of Christmas: Emmanuel - God With Us. From the wood of the manger to the wood of the cross.

God Treasure Wood Christmas Miracle

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

Christopher Gorham

Integrity Together Me Important Say

We have to really think about where our food is coming from. The hormones being put in the stuff we eat - all of that contributes to cancer.

Christina Applegate

Food Think Eat Coming Cancer Where

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Funny People Think Know Class Clown

I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'

Great Dance Game Think Enjoy First

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Book Excitement First Writer Soon

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

Future History Mistakes Past Learn

My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.

Creativity You Back Dream Go Kind

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

William Howard Taft

Believe Cannot Christ Subscribe Many

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