Jack Vance Quotes

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

Jack Vance

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 28, 1916 - May 26, 2013

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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Jodi Picoult

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I see myself touring internationally - everywhere, every theater, every arena - and putting out stand-up comedy specials until I can't even stand no more. Even then, I'll probably do my comedy special in a hospital bed.

Jermaine Fowler

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The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Andrew Cuomo

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I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.

Trudi Canavan

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Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

Tom Osborne

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Remembering people is the most fundamental gesture of love and respect. For me, there are people in my life who are no longer with me, who have died, who are with me as much as any living person because I remember everything about them. My great-uncle, who I got a lot of guidance in life from, meant so much to me.

Tom Reiss

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Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

Loretta Lynn

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I'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing.

Corey Hawkins

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For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Anthony Hopkins

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The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

William Gurnall

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I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

Shaun Sipos

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I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

Shekhar Kapur

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