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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The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
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If I had not discovered the music, I would probably have been in prison today, if I had lived until now. At the same time, if I had not gone to school, I would not have discovered the music.
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Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
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Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.
