Jack Vance Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!
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The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
