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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Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.
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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
