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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Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
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For me getting paid for art is a class issue. I don't have the luxury not to care. It's great if your parents buy you a house and you can sell your 400-page book for $2. But for marginalized people it's not as cool to martyr yourself.
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You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
