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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We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.
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You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.
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To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
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Art is not a Trojan horse.
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When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.
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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?
