Alan Furst Quotes

When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.

Joel Murray

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People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.

Andrew Whitworth

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Voice acting is very creative, especially 'Star Wars' voice acting, because there's so much you have to imagine.

Matt Lanter

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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Stephen Covey

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I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

Steven Hatfill

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The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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I'm only four weeks out from birth, so I still have a couple more weeks before I can work out - which is fine with me. I love the feeling of working out, but I've never been a gym rat, ever, so now, it's all about taking in what I can if it's good for the baby, because it all translates to her in a way.

Chrissy Teigen

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I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren.

Claire Foy

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But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Clare Short

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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Brian Eno

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I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.

Anton du Beke

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