Jack Vance Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I was a tomboy.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
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My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.
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CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.
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Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.
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It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
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Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
