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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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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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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
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I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.
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A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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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.
