Jack Vance Quotes
Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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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.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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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.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.
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Search is an unsolved problem.
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I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.
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If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
