"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."

-- Alan Dean Foster

#Done Quotes #Economic Quotes #Given Quotes

“I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.”
“There's a trend in Hollywood at the moment where studio executives are coming from more of a marketing background, and that is challenging. I think one of the problems of marketing executives is that they don't understand how films get made and they're a bit nervous. And that is not the most efficient way to be a studio executive.”
“Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.”
“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due respective thrift, Had made brutes men and men divine.”
“I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might”

Source : Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC
“I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.”
“The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.”
“If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.”

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