Jack Vance Quotes
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I'm very independent.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
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The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
