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Alan Dean Foster

"I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility."

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Donna Grant

"Employment sells out the future life."

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Donna Grant

"Love is always by definition a choice."

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Donna Grant

"You have to lose something to gain anything."

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Donna Grant

"More so God didn't choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son."

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Donna Grant

"Sacrifice precedes any success."

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Donna Grant

"Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others."

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Donna Grant

"Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel's sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life."

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Donna Grant

"To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehend, and enormous beyond any resource we possess to execute. And to embark upon just such a mission fully knowing that without our death the mission will fall to failure is bravery of the greatest sort imaginable. Yet, that is exactly what Christmas is."

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Donna Grant

"Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war."

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Donna Grant

"Is Tyson okay?" I asked.The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter" is a strange battle cry."You let him fight?"Stop changing the subject! You realize what you are asking me to do? My palace will be destroyed."And Olympus might be saved."Do you have any idea how long I've worked on remodeling this palace? The game room alone took six hundred years."Dad-"Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works."I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?"Oh . . . yes. Good point."

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Alan Dean Foster
"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters."

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Alan Dean Foster
"The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so."

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Alan Dean Foster
"I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new."

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Alan Dean Foster
"I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility."

Sacrifice

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Alan Dean Foster
"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."

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Alan Dean Foster
"Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art."

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Alan Dean Foster
"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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Alan Dean Foster
"Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies."

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

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Alan Dean Foster
"Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly."

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