Jack Vance Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
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All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
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I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.
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America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
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The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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From the summit of power men no longer turn their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
