Alan Dean Foster Quotes
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
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When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.
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There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.
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Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
