Jane Lindskold Quotes
Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.
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I didn't want my script to get too out of control like that. So I actually made it a point not to do stuff like that, to pretty - to keep it more sparse than it's been in the last few years, or the last decade.
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I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes.
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Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.
