Jack L. Chalker Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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.
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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.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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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.
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I really like performing for people.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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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.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
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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!
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
