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?'
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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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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.
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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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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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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 don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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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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Growing old is not growing up.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
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Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
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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?'
