Jack Vance Quotes

'It is no hardship whatever,' said Aillas. 'You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?'

Jack Vance

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• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  

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• I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

  

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• But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

  

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• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

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• There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

  

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• It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.

  

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• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

  

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• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

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• Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

  

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• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

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• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  

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• When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

  

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• I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

  

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• Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

  

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• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

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• In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.

  

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• Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

  

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• Islam has always been a part of America's story.

  

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• I love films. It's really funny, actually. Like, I see a lot of smaller movies. But a lot of these big, epic films that everyone's like, 'You have to see,' I haven't watched yet.

  

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• As long as they (government) make businesses grow in the country, as long as we collect more taxes, as long as we use those taxes efficiently, I think the confidence will come back, every one will be very happy with whatever government is in the Centre and we will be better country.

  

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• I rarely meet a lot of the people who buy and collect my work.

  

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• Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

  

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• A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.

  

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• 'It is no hardship whatever,' said Aillas. 'You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?'

  

  Jack Vance