I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at leas...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and exp...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabri...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all ...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the character...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all ...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings f...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's ...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper ...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all ...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at leas...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all ...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the character...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I hav...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on ...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I've been writing full-time since 1978.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from pag...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purpo...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER That's what you would expect out of (a veteran group). You can't say enough about those kids and how...
DEAN FOSTER Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the Amer...
DEAN FOSTER Right now, we should all be learning Mandarin. We are going to be so impacted by the growth of China...
DEAN FOSTER International business has always existed in some form. But because of advances in technology and tr...
DEAN FOSTER I think our kids knew they didn't play very well in that third quarter and wanted to make amends. Ba...
DEAN FOSTER We moved the ball around really well tonight. We really focused on moving the ball toward the goal a...
DEAN FOSTER Although we had a few breakdowns in the fourth quarter, I can't say enough about the effort our kids...
DEAN FOSTER The first quarter was just awful, but then Tommy (Kurth) banks in the 3 and we have the lead after t...
DEAN FOSTER I can't say enough about the players and the way we played. Three game in three days? The kids could...
DEAN FOSTER The first two nights, Tyler Brown set the tone for us, but tonight all the kids just went out and di...
DEAN FOSTER In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it w...
NORMAN FOSTER What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his ...
FOSTER FRIESS All of us grow.
FOSTER FRIESS I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us ...
FOSTER FRIESS Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
FOSTER FRIESS Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start ou...
FOSTER FRIESS Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
FOSTER FRIESS In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with th...
FOSTER FRIESS How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any...
FOSTER FRIESS In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of differ...
FOSTER FRIESS If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
FOSTER FRIESS I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my asset...
FOSTER FRIESS Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
FOSTER FRIESS I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on...
FOSTER FRIESS I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it ...
FOSTER FRIESS I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
FOSTER FRIESS 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cu...
FOSTER FRIESS People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wann...
FOSTER FRIESS I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavi...
FOSTER FRIESS I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board...
FOSTER FRIESS I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community f...
FOSTER FRIESS If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage sh...
FOSTER FRIESS The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have los...
FOSTER FRIESS Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn...
LORI FOSTER We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER Other players have come in and said that our fans are crazy. The fans are crazy, and they are wonder...
AARON FOSTER This one feels really good, because we've really battled those guys and never beat them. We've been ...
AARON FOSTER Our fans are the best, and we wish we could win for them. They certainly deserve it.
AARON FOSTER We showed a lot of character, but it's very disappointing to come all the way back like that and sti...
AARON FOSTER We were definitely feeding off the energy of the crowd. They've been great to us, and they really go...
AARON FOSTER Australia's interest-rate margin will be maintained. The risk-reward for the Australian dollar is th...
ADRIAN FOSTER There's quite a healthy outlook for the economy and inflationary pressures are fairly subdued. I can...
ADRIAN FOSTER Something like this comes out, people have a natural reaction to square their currency positions if ...
ADRIAN FOSTER There's this building case that the BOJ will be changing policy soon. That's the trigger we've been ...
ADRIAN FOSTER Recent price action suggests the dollar-yuan is more loosely following the dollar.
ADRIAN FOSTER The U.K. over the past six months shows us how the economy can go from looking quite weak to improvi...
ADRIAN FOSTER Say the RBNZ cuts interest rates three times, which most agree would be aggressive, you still have N...
ADRIAN FOSTER Looking internationally, the market still has a hefty appetite for yield that will support the curre...
ADRIAN FOSTER The dollar got sold off and then rallied back to the levels prior to the news. The jobless figure is...
ADRIAN FOSTER A strong number will keep alive speculation of more rate hikes. It should give some support to the d...
ADRIAN FOSTER Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
JODIE FOSTER Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and da...
JODIE FOSTER No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
DONALD FOSTER I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was...
NORMAN FOSTER I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I li...
JODIE FOSTER In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar b...
FOSTER FRIESS Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
NORMAN FOSTER As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is es...
NORMAN FOSTER I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long hau...
NORMAN FOSTER Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where...
JODIE FOSTER There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, deli...
NORMAN FOSTER I consider myself a songwriter first. Some songs come quick. It's just a matter of getting in here a...
BEN FOSTER I'm really looking forward to it. People always ask me if I got a lot of training in with them, but ...
BEN FOSTER Edwin's been on fire,
BEN FOSTER Then in two years' time we'll assess the situation and, if I've progressed, he'll give me a chance. ...
BEN FOSTER Alex Ferguson told me it was best if I went out on loan and got another year's experience and maybe ...
BEN FOSTER Alex Ferguson told me it was best if I went out on loan and got another year's experience and maybe ...
BEN FOSTER Edwin's been on fire, ... I've watched him on telly and he's been pulling loads of saves out to be f...
BEN FOSTER I've watched him on telly and he's been pulling loads of saves out to be fair to him - that save fro...
BEN FOSTER [Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster expects to spend the next two years away from Old Trafford ...
BEN FOSTER Allied has gone to a lot of effort to help us meet our deadlines. They've expedited some emergency e...
BEN FOSTER When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invi...
NORMAN FOSTER We want to make students aware that science is universal. We have all contributed.
BENJAMIN FOSTER It is an attempt to steer students to become more interested in science and mathematics and improve ...
BENJAMIN FOSTER Most of the major research collections were looted or burned or at least their status is very much i...
BENJAMIN FOSTER Our department is very liberal in that respect.
BENJAMIN FOSTER Usually [the Blue Book] goes to press quite early. We often hear about courses much later.
BENJAMIN FOSTER I don't think we are changing the world here, but we might be influencing a perspective.
ERIN FOSTER The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at th...
NORMAN FOSTER I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desira...
NORMAN FOSTER I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desira...
NORMAN FOSTER Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
JODIE FOSTER The last thing we want to do is impose our world view, ... But we help them to think through new, cr...
ANNE FOSTER In Guatemala, there is a large indigent community, ... That's why you see higher death rates.
ANNE FOSTER There are several levels of problems, ... The status of women is a big issue. The long-term solution...
ANNE FOSTER They are afraid to walk four hours on a footpath to a clinic and maybe find nobody there, or they wi...
ANNE FOSTER In Latin America, there tend to be enough rural health centers and enough hospitals, but there aren'...
ANNE FOSTER If people want to help the families affected by the flooding, the best way to do that is with financ...
ANITA FOSTER We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine wheth...
ANITA FOSTER It looks like Houston and Dallas are going to be the sites for receiving long-term evacuees.
ANITA FOSTER For now, it's a safe place for people to go who can't get back into their neighborhoods.
ANITA FOSTER It's been a really wild day.
ANITA FOSTER My mother was out there with a garden hose. She lives in Arlington, near the Mansfield border. She's...
ANITA FOSTER Ten homes are on fire and will mostly likely be destroyed.
ANITA FOSTER Anyone who perpetrates fraud ... we will prosecute.
ANITA FOSTER There are hundreds of thousands of people impacted and this will be a very slow moving recovery effo...
ANITA FOSTER Residents often seek out our services in the winter after their heat has been shut off for not payin...
ANITA FOSTER On your typical day at the museum, parking really isn't an issue. It's when they have an event that ...
BILL FOSTER I'd like to see some way for them to use our airport.
BILL FOSTER It's like night and day. It's everything you've done for the past couple of months times eight.
BILL FOSTER All I want to do is ask nicely, ... Every time someone gets it wrong, we're losing a marketing oppor...
BILL FOSTER The proponents of estate tax repeal are fond of calling it the 'death tax'. It's not a death tax, it...
BILL FOSTER You didn't even need to see a person. All those little squares were rooftops. Each one was a home to...
BILL FOSTER Practice being excited.
BILL FOSTER The end result was nowhere near what was sold to the council. We were sold that it would be a family...
BILL FOSTER It was a surprise. I'm not going to say I'm not going to accept it. But somewhere in this use agreem...
BILL FOSTER The sentiment was (barricades) have done more harm than good. Things were kind of quiet until the ba...
BILL FOSTER Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
JODIE FOSTER My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're mos...
JODIE FOSTER We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in ou...
LORI FOSTER Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't s...
NORMAN FOSTER You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
FOSTER FRIESS Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As ...
JODIE FOSTER When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get i...
DAVID FOSTER I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the...
LORI FOSTER I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretc...
SARA FOSTER What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are mo...
FOSTER FRIESS The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business t...
FOSTER FRIESS Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, a...
SUTTON FOSTER Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to ha...
JODIE FOSTER He's a guy that shows flashes but just needs to be consistent. When we've been really good, we've ha...
BUD FOSTER He's a guy that really took a step forward as far as what our safety position demands. I just see hi...
BUD FOSTER I'm just really pleased with the way our kids have played so far. Really, since the first ballgame w...
BUD FOSTER Jimmy came back for all the right reasons. He wanted to mature and grow as a person and mature and g...
BUD FOSTER It's been a great relationship, and the consistency helps out. He's a mentor, father figure, a frien...
BUD FOSTER Jimmy has grown up tremendously, probably as much as any young man I've ever been around. Four years...
BUD FOSTER We were able to get him on the run and obviously with his situation, getting him moving around, I'm ...
BUD FOSTER At this time in their careers, compared to those other guys, they're more talented. Hopefully that a...
BUD FOSTER I just like the way we're improving. They're not satisfied, that's the thing. We've got to be hungry...
BUD FOSTER As good as we've been with this program, we can be better. That's what's exciting about this win. To...
BUD FOSTER It didn't take a genius to figure out what he had athletically,
BRIAN FOSTER I found out they had a meeting at City Hall with the mayor, the chief of police, the chief of the fi...
BRIAN FOSTER Our start to the season has been generally encouraging,
BRIAN FOSTER I am obviously gutted at missing out on this game, although I will have the phone to my ear for most...
BRIAN FOSTER We have to wait. We have to decide in another month what to do. But it will be another year until we...
BRIAN FOSTER This was the kind of game it's always going to be with Hunt,
BRIAN FOSTER No lawsuit has been filed, but we're considering all options,
BRIAN FOSTER But to Julius, he was just playing, because he didn't realize how special he was.
BRIAN FOSTER And this team is not going to quit. We're going to come back next week (at Southern Wayne) and be 3-...
BRIAN FOSTER We had it exactly where we wanted it. But some how, we lined up offsides twice. We also had other op...
BRIAN FOSTER I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I...
JODIE FOSTER The usage is only going to change as more people move into the township and find it and use it. Peop...
BOB FOSTER It's put a long-standing feud to rest.
BOB FOSTER We all get together Friday night, and we'll get together again (Saturday night).
BOB FOSTER It's great to come back and see everybody. It's so good to see friends, old roommates.
BOB FOSTER Bringing the Hilton San Diego Resort into the Noble House Collection is a great addition to the comp...
BOB FOSTER He was a smart guy who wrote witty, situational comedies.
BOB FOSTER We wanted to give (the audience) something they would laugh to and remember. It's just a fun night a...
BOB FOSTER Right now the sun is beginning to set, we're generating about nine amps.
BOB FOSTER We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking ...
BOB FOSTER We've looked at it, and we've analyzed it, and we feel confident we can reach our goal.
BOB FOSTER It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need...
JODIE FOSTER Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I ...
NORMAN FOSTER Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the ...
JOHN FOSTER I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and fin...
JODIE FOSTER I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
JODIE FOSTER I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub my...
JODIE FOSTER Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and...
RICHARD FOSTER We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants w...
NORMAN FOSTER We are who people think we are.
DAVID FOSTER There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an e...
DAVID FOSTER I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.
JODIE FOSTER I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing th...
DAVID FOSTER We had a freshman (Jeremy Atkinson) on him. I just helped him out and was able to make a big play.
JONATHAN FOSTER We're not going too come out too quickly or too much, ... We do want to bring it back to irreverent ...
GARY FOSTER Warner Bros. and Playtone have been fantastic partners, and we're very excited to expand our relatio...
GREG FOSTER People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are ...
ERIN FOSTER President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I ...
FOSTER FRIESS Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician...
JODIE FOSTER Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
JODIE FOSTER I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laug...
SUTTON FOSTER