Jane Lindskold Quotes
I've never met any artist who illustrated one of my books, although I've corresponded briefly with one. I have always been impressed by the technical expertise involved in the covers, even if sometimes puzzled by the subject matter.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.
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The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
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There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
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I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
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My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
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I jump at any chance to go back into theater.
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The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
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I grew up playing every sport.
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Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.
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When 'Family Guy' came along, it was like a gift, and it expanded my fan base.
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I've never met any artist who illustrated one of my books, although I've corresponded briefly with one. I have always been impressed by the technical expertise involved in the covers, even if sometimes puzzled by the subject matter.
