Jack Vance Quotes
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.
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People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.
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Hermann went out of his mind, and is now confined in room Number 17 of the Obukhov Hospital. He never answers any questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: 'Three, seven, ace!' 'Three, seven, queen!'
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You want to put out a record that you feel is exactly as you want it. Nobody wants to tour for two years on a record they don't like.
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Only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
