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JACK VANCE It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
JACK VANCE As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
JACK VANCE If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
JACK VALENTI Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at...
JACK VALENTI Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched...
JACK VALENTI I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ...
JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
JACK STRAW It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW