Alan Dean Foster Quotes
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
Quotes to Explore
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
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So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.
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I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.
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I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
