Jack Vance Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
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Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
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A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.
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I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I'd come in all cocky, like, 'I'm gonna bring this town to its knees!' After about a month, I was like, 'I wanna go home.'
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Sorry, I’m not at home. I have gone out to my world Fancy, and I cannot be reached. Call back in a week, unless your business is urgent, in which case call back in a month.
