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Jack Kornfield

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JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f...
JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years...
JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it...
JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use...
JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn...
JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s...
JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting...
JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c...
JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
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 In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio...
JACK STEINBERGER I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio...
JACK STEINBERGER In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer...
JACK STEINBERGER I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to...
JACK STEINBERGER I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
JACK STEINBERGER It's great that people are interested in Mars.
JACK SCHMITT But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base ...
JACK SCHMITT It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Cany...
JACK SCHMITT My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
JACK SCALIA There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
JACK SCALIA I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that ser...
JACK SCALIA I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
JACK SCALIA You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
JACK SCALIA But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
JACK SCALIA Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ...
JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
JACK SCALIA I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent ...
JACK REYNOR I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor c...
JACK REYNOR With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play...
JACK REYNOR As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
JACK REYNOR I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
JACK REYNOR If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain p...
JACK REYNOR