Jack Vance Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.
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I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.
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Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
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I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.
