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Jack L. Chalker

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JACK L. CHALKER I write novels and other things.
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JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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JACK L. WARNER I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
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JACK L. WARNER You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.
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L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
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METTRIE L. In the beginning, there was silence.
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JACK WHITEHALL I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
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JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
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JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
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JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro...
JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real...
JACK WHITE One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo...
JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous...
JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins.
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JACK WELCH Change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone.
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JACK WAGNER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &...
JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate...
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JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On...
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JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou...
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JACK WAGNER My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co...
JACK WAGNER Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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JACK WAGNER My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life.
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JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years...
JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it...
JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use...
JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn...
JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s...
JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting...
JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c...
JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
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