Alan Dean Foster Quotes

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

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• Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• I enjoy building more than managing.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Enjoy
  • Building
  • More

• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Taken
  • Photography
  • Modeling

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Love
  • Sports
  • Adventure

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • You
  • Difference

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Need
  • Belief
  • Heroes

• My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Live
  • Independent
  • Place

• I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Feel
  • Kid
  • Relaxed

• Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Real
  • Savings

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Political
  • Decisions

• If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn’t capitalism-or at least, isn’t any sort of capitalism that would be recognizable from the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, or, for that matter, Ludwig von Mises or Milton Friedman.

  

  David Graeber
  • Logic

• The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

  

  George Jean Nathan
  • Path
  • Forest

• Brad Pitt's role in 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' - I want to do that so bad! That's one of my favorite movies of all time, and that character was so funny.

  

  Jessie Usher
  • Time
  • Character
  • Bad

• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Book

• In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Safety
  • Auto

• In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Character
  • Book