Jack L. Chalker Quotes

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

Jack L. Chalker

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• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Explain

• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Like
  • Something
  • Voiceover

• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• I really like performing for people.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Like
  • Performing

• Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Style
  • Like

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • High
  • Like

• I can swear like a fishwife.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Like
  • I Can
  • Swear

• Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Like
  • Moral
  • Feel

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Like

• Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Like
  • Texas
  • Taxi

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Like
  • Bones
  • Chicken

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Show

• I've never liked rehearsing too much.

  

  J Mascis
  • Never
  • Too Much
  • Too

• I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Work
  • Like
  • Really

• There is nothin' like a dame.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Like
  • Dame
  • Nothin

• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Point
  • Gifts
  • Shock

• Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Rich
  • Pasta

• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • Different
  • Oil

• To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Like
  • Holiday
  • Too Much