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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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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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
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Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. 'Why does he kill these 22 people?' If they say, 'What difference does it make?' I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
