Alan Dean Foster Quotes

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

Alan Dean Foster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1946

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If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

John Oliver

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I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.

Angela Lindvall

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Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.

Andy Grammer

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If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.

Michael Heisley

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The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.

Tony Abbott

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I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student - but I knew I was never going to be picked up.

Rupi Kaur

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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Mo Udall

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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Jonathan Kozol

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

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Being a superhero is a lot of fun.

Chris Hemsworth

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By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Chuck Eddy

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The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

Bob Newhart

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