Jack Vance Quotes
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
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I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
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Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.
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Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.
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I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
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I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.
