Jack L. Chalker Quotes
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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There always have been funny women.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
