John Vane Quotes

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

John Vane

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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

J. G. Ballard
- Writing
- Done
- Truth
I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

Edmund White
- Think
- Death
- Dying
Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

Owain Yeoman
- Ideas
- Enemy
- Try
I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

Taylor Swift
- Time
- Love
- Perfect
What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

P. J. O'Rourke
- May
- Obnoxious
- Visionary
Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

J. K. Simmons
- Friends
- Dad
- Old