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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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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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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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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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.
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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.
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If you're the president of a charity, you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for yourself. And you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for your business.
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Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
