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.

  

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

  

  Orson Welles
  • Doing
  • Anything
  • Rather

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

  

  Wanda Sykes
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  • Women
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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.

  

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

  

  Uma Thurman
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  • Children
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• I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

  

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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.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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  • True
  • Think

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

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Family
  • Home
  • You

• 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.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Human
  • Race
  • Realize

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

  

  Randy Savage
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

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

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

  Nas
  • 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.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Feel
  • Emotions
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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.

  

  R. Kelly
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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.

  

  Randy Harrison
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  • You
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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.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Justice
  • Enough
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Mae Jemison
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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.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
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• We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
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• My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

  

  Christopher Lee
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• It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
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• Is such a street scene as the blue prostitutes not a picture of fantasy? Of course, only the accusation is really present. But how nice, how powerful, and how removed from nature is the design. The danger of being caught up in the representational did not exist for Kirchner he is writing about himself, in the third person. Instead he thought too painterly for that. The graphics and paintings of the 'Streetscenes' show best where purely painterly, one could say non-representational, feelings converged.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Present
  • Design
  • Danger

• Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

  

  Plautus
  • Wish

• '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