Alan Dean Foster Quotes
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I like being unconventional.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
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[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
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I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
