Jack Vance Quotes
Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
Quotes to Explore
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.
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I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.
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At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
