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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The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.
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Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
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I used to always want to play the perfect match, and this meant not losing a point. The realisation came around the time I was 19 years old, in the French Open final in 2007. This was a key period in my career. I was told I was going for too many winners, which was affecting my game.
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Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.
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You see, you could never do a sketch like that these days. The audience is too uninformed. I blame the Americans. Nation of obese, violent, pig-ignorant, bible-thumping morons contaminating world culture. That’s why I spend most of my time here in France. … Beautiful, isn’t it? Just look at those olive trees. Interviewer: This is Santa Barbara.
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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?
