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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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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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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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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People play with pain all the time.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
