Jack Vance Quotes
And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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New York is my home.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
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It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.
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The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
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No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
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I add a smile to everything I wear and that has worked great for me.
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Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.
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Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I'm connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.
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And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
