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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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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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
