Alan Furst Quotes

Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as new plays would come out.

Joe Mantello

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I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God, and I try to share it with as many people as possible.

Andrea Bocelli

GodPeopleGiftSelf-ConfidenceKnow

I enjoy fighting, but my family says, 'Stop, no.'

Anderson Silva

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I was living in a suburban town north of London, dutifully practicing my Mozart sonatas. And the milkman who delivered the milk in the mornings was kind of milkman by day, composer-artist by night.

Max Richter

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I am just a Flemish girl with her feet on the ground.

Ann Demeulemeester

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You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.

Amanda de Cadenet

LifeYourselfYouImportantCenter

I've always been ambitious. I've always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.

RuPaul

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I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess.

Mindy Kaling

LooksThreeKindBedroomMessCost

People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of 'Outlander' for years and years and years.

Diana Gabaldon

PeopleTryingYearsFilmBeenMake

As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am.

DeRay Mckesson

ManI AmSpaceMeBlackSelf

With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.

Douglas Brunt

GoodAgeDayYouDownYoung

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Arthur Adamov

KnowOnlyYourThe Only ThingHow

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