Jack Vance Quotes
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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It is not the similarity or dissimilarity of individuals that constitutes a group, but interdependence of fate.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
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I started working out with my mom in 4th grade. She used to take me to the track.
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
