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.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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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.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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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.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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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.
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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.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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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.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
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It is important, therefore, to understand at the outset the simplicity of this book - what it can accomplish and what it cannot. What it does try to do is to isolate certain psychological factors and to demonstrate rigorously by quantitative scientific methods that these factors are generally important in economic development.
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I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
