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J. D. Vance Quotes

If you had looked at my life when I was 14 years old and said, 'Well, what's going to happen to this kid?' you would have concluded that I would have struggled with what academics call upward mobility.

J. D. Vance

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1984

Topics

Life My Life You Said Old Kid

I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.

Jim McKelvey

Job People Better Doing Done Watch

What I have learned from working on those great shows is what is the DNA that makes them so deeply involving and interesting for an audience over a long period of time. So much has to do with character, complexity, and sophistication.

Jeremy Podeswa

Character Great Time Interesting DNA

There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.

Andy Garcia

Good Quality Writing Story Design

International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

Angus Deaton

Cooperation Safe Planet Commerce Our

HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.

Merle Haggard

Good Want Company Pretty Something

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Soren Kierkegaard

Game Feel Chess Opponent Cannot

My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.

Steve Scalise

Business Today Job Road Care You

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

Ruth Rendell

Life People Better Know Want My Own

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

Michelle Bachelet

Change Woman Process End Ready Vote

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues a lot of contemporary American fiction.

Michelle Dean

Potential American Wrong Nothing

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Hope Challenge Negative Face Advice

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Live Money Energy Priorities Meeting