Jack Vance Quotes
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
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I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.
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I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.
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Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
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Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.
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The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind.
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
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I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
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He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.
