Jack L. Chalker Quotes

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• I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Space
  • Always
  • Warm

• I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Me
  • Grew

• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Destroy

• Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Water
  • Walking
  • Creativity

• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • She
  • Feeling
  • You

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Friend

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Baby
  • Matter
  • Parent

• Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Cool
  • Star
  • Big

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Amazing

• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Name

• I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Live
  • Enough

• Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Neighbor
  • Tall

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

  

  William James
  • Evil
  • Existence
  • Individual

• Wayne's my man. I'm proud of him, he worked hard. You know with a lot of people, Wayne's been doing this for years. Wayne had a record deal before I had a record deal, you know what I'm saying? Even though Cash Money been our for 12, 13 years so you know, for him to come up for where he came up, it was all them, B.G, Juvie, Turk, everybody. To see him excel from all that and become one of the hottest people in the game, 10, 12 years later, I'm really proud of him. That's my lil' man.

  

  Cam'ron
  • People
  • Men
  • Proud

• I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Write

• It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'

  

  Walter J Chantry
  • Christian
  • Things
  • Enough

• Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • End
  • Tragic
  • Reforms

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels