Alan Dean Foster Quotes

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

Alan Dean Foster

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.

  

  Ian Doescher
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• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  

  Pallam Raju
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• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
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• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
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• Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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  • Why
  • Everyone

• I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

  

  Adam Driver
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• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

  

  Camila Alves
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• Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

  

  Sadie Jones
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• I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

  

  Naya Rivera
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• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
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  • Competition

• It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  

  Leon Uris
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• I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Never
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Today
  • Everyday
  • Greatness

• I'm a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It's really fun, man!

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Fun
  • Dance
  • Jump

• I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Perfect