Jack Vance Quotes
'Now it seems that Roger has once more taken up with Miss Roswyn. I can’t say that I approve, but he has not troubled to ask my advice.' She heaved a sigh. 'But I am sure that the world will never go precisely to my liking.''Does it for anyone?' asked Bernard Bickel with good-natured cynicism.'Probably not, and I must reconcile myself to the fact.'
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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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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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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Listen to me brother! bring the
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Confidence is sky high, but we're also all very grounded. We know, in football, nothing can be taken for granted.
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Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
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I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.
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'Now it seems that Roger has once more taken up with Miss Roswyn. I can’t say that I approve, but he has not troubled to ask my advice.' She heaved a sigh. 'But I am sure that the world will never go precisely to my liking.''Does it for anyone?' asked Bernard Bickel with good-natured cynicism.'Probably not, and I must reconcile myself to the fact.'
