Jack Vance Quotes
Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
Jack Vance
Quotes to Explore
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
Vanessa Kerry
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
Rachel Kushner
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
Mahershala Ali
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
Walter Koenig
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
Nancy A. Collins
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
Zhang Jindong
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
Zinedine Zidane
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To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
Alain Ducasse
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My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.
Artie Lange
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If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Bill Gates
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I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.
James Snyder
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
Jack Vance
