Alan Furst Quotes

Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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MeKingsCountryRunWhyEurope

That's the whole point of playing basketball - having fun.

Joel Embiid

FunHaving FunBasketballPoint

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

John Irving

AgeDisciplineMeThinkKindWrite

I was joking the other day that I'm American UKIP.

Jeff Duncan

DayAmericanOtherJoking

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Robert Wyatt

QualityMostEffectiveVocal

The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree with someone.

Michael Tubbs

PowerTrustSomeoneYouJust Because

Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in.

Molly Antopol

MeWritingStoryThinkingActing

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

Lisa Jakub

CareerBecomeIndustryLeftFilm

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks

AlonePastGovernmentSocietyDeep

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

David Starr Jordan

ManWorldPassGoingWhoKnows

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

Anthony Horowitz

FatherManThinkBadBad Man

The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.

Allison Tolman

WorkMePerformanceYouDoneKind

Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box - and reclassify some of the ideas that we've called 'progressive,' but that are really mainstream ideas, like college for all - the better.

Pramila Jayapal

PowerPeopleCollegeIdeasBetter

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