Jack Vance Quotes
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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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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.
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Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?
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If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
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This has certainly been a good working relationship. We'll see if we can't make something we're all proud of in the end.
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I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.
