At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
Jack Wild
Related My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at sch... STORMZY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Leone had a great sense of style, a love for and an understanding of Hollywood Westerns and a unique... SIR CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING When I was younger, I wanted to be a cop. Then I watched 'The Wild Wild West,' and so I want... WOODY HARRELSON In (terms of) showbiz/Hollywood lore, I was treated with unheard-of respect on the set - by the acto... ANGUS MACLACHLAN Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my f... LISA LUTZ I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End ... PATRICK MACNEE I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got app... ROGER DEAKINS I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with ... RICHARD J. ROBERTS People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less cr... BEN HECHT 'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an ima... ADRIANA TRIGIANI The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for peopl... JENNY LEWIS My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my care... FRED FUNK Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make frien... SAINA NEHWAL I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the... CHRISTIAN SLATER I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered ... ESSIE DAVIS As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human ... STOCKWELL DAY As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deepl... NATASHA LYONNE The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religi... SAMUEL BUTLER When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle... CLIVE SINCLAIR I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amo... TYLER PERRY The thing I remember most about middle school was how tough it was. You're not quite an adult, but y... JEN WATERS Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most differe... RICHARD ROHR I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's a... M. K. HOBSON Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... CAROL LEIFER When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with... YVES ROSSY It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy w... MAREN MORRIS My family is certainly very vocal. They're very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people s... CHRIS EVANS In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Tex... TAYLOR SHERIDAN Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professiona... RANDY WEST Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-sett... ANNA PAQUIN I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually unt... MAGNUS CARLSEN I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing t... ORLANDO BLOOM Soundgarden was incredibly democratic, and I was really proud of that. I felt like we got along bett... CHRIS CORNELL I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amat... ZOE TAPPER I think the Frenchman is happy in London and Arsenal are preparing a contract extension for him. MASSIMO MORATTI There were terrific shows on TV like 'Star Trek' and 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea... MARK RYLANCE I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth... JOHN SHELBY SPONG Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one... MICHELLE PAVER In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the... VINCENT NICHOLS That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don... STEPHEN HARPER Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog ... ERMA BOMBECK I was at Home Depot with my dad looking for paint when I got the call to open for Taylor Swift. That... CHARLIE WORSHAM One of the most transformative moments of John's life was when Josie and Jack became part of their f... RICHARD LAZARUS The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a ... AYELET ZURER I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the ... BRUCE SUTTER All employees, regardless of what company they work for, deserve an environment where they are treat... EDITH CASTILLO I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that ma... BRANDON STANTON My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland &... LOUIS MACNEICE The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage. FRANCES BEINECKE Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,... OSCAR WILDE He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. GENE FOWLER I wasn't naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked m... GRETCHEN CARLSON When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drive... KYRIE IRVING It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules. STEVEN WRIGHT Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least ... DAVID RAKOFF It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved... LOUIS TOMLINSON I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I wo... SUKARNO The block captains, who were usually women because most of the men were off at war, were in charge o... CHRISTOPHER DODD I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed thre... JACK W. SZOSTAK At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance. CANDICE BERGEN I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r... DAVE BARRY I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r... GEORGE BURNS I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r... GEORGE F. BURNS I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially tr... RANDY WEST I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 3... JACK NICHOLSON Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned... SCOTT MCCLELLAN Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small p... ROBERT IRVINE I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hol... JAMIE ANNE ALLMAN When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and ... DJIMON HOUNSOU I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' s... MIRANDA HART It's a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it's Cracker Jack'd. Frito Lay, when th... ASHLEY TISDALE Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wo... ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashio... REEM ACRA I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experienc... AUTUMN REESER I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London... and suddenly, I couldn't ju... KATE WINSLET The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagul... CAREY MULLIGAN I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely th... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I admire Jack for many things, but especially for the way he always treated our relationship. Jack w... TOM WATSON 'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Holly... MANNY FARBER We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Wh... LADY GAGA The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn't a business... GREG BRENNEMAN Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. f... DAVID HARSANYI When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a... ADOLF GALLAND I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespea... JAMES CROMWELL He wants to hear their opinions. As an actor, it was what I always craved. You really want as an act... JULIAN FELLOWES Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went ... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho... TED DEKKER When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it... K. A. APPLEGATE My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - whe... RICHARD BURTON I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we wou... HANNAH MURRAY My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my ... DEBBIE MACOMBER Why should I crowd the world with my opinions? Live and let live. That's it. Let people have the... ALIA BHATT You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible m... TIM MATHESON At the time of our conversations, Chelsea Manning was 22 years of age - my own age when I made the c... ADRIáN LAMO One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known or... IAN FLEMING I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of... MOLLY RINGWALD
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When you fall in love with music ! LUCAS WILD People who know what is inside of you are people who are afraid of your strength. LUCAS WILD If you have what Earth needs. Than do everything what it takes to get it to people. LUCAS WILD You CAN'T be sad in London. LUCAS WILD Hudba je ten najkrajší zázrak aký som mohol stretnúť v tomto živote. Ďakujem Bohu že mi dal... LUCAS WILD V momente keď som pochopil, že neexistuje nič ako životná prehra, pochopil som, že na svete ne... LUCAS WILD In music more important is to feel it when you play than compare yourself LUCAS WILD Nie je väčší úspech ako vyťažiť maximum zo svojho vlastného zlyhania. LUCAS WILD Každý má svoj život vopred určený. Ide iba o to či dokážeš využiť celý svoj potenciál. LUCAS WILD The most beautiful thing about writing songs is when something really pisses you off and you get it ... LUCAS WILD Life is not about justice. It's about breaking the rules. You need to be stubborn and resistant. LUCAS WILD Úprimne ľutujem ľudí, ktorí zabíjajú čas a nepracujú na niečom veľkom. Čas je obmedzený... LUCAS WILD I can't breath without you, baby. You undo me and then put me back together whole again. You take i... MEREDITH WILD It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tough tim... MEREDITH WILD Blake Landon was my drug, my obsession-a habit I had no intentions of ever quitting. MEREDITH WILD Marriage, to me, implied stability, something sure and reliable. Happily ever after and all good thi... MEREDITH WILD Don't worry baby, I'm not leaving. Now when you're spread out for me like a fucking banquet. MEREDITH WILD • “As soon as I'd walked out of my normal working life and into the apartment we now shared, I w... MEREDITH WILD His green eyes were dark and dilated, and they locked with mine. I saw him then - the man, but also ... MEREDITH WILD You make me happy, so yes. The less of you I have to share, the better. MEREDITH WILD Listen to your heart, Erica. There’s nothing but noise in this world, and that’s got to be the o... MEREDITH WILD It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don’t just take to move your ... MEREDITH WILD For better or worse, we’d ended those nights together. Not last night, and when he left me alone, ... MEREDITH WILD I wanted to be everything for him, even in these dark moments when nothing made sense but the demand... MEREDITH WILD Are you a risk? Usually when you leave me, you just take my heart. That’s the biggest risk of all,... MEREDITH WILD Either way, I couldn’t let him leave me, and if I had to kneel to make him stay, I would. MEREDITH WILD Make no mistake, what’s yours is mine. I don’t need a legal document to make me feel any safer i... MEREDITH WILD As soon as I'd walked out of my normal working life and into the apartment we now shared, I went to ... MEREDITH WILD With all his kinks and maddening control issues, I loved this man. As much as he needed this, I need... MEREDITH WILD the only place I could feel the pain was in my heart, the place where I’d wounded us both. MEREDITH WILD I own you, Erica. Your heart, the blood that beats through it when I hold you down this way. Your b... MEREDITH WILD Blake could own me, he could hold something deep in me, but I knew I'd captured something precious i... MEREDITH WILD I want control, Erica. But I'm not going to take it from you. You have to give it to me. you opened... MEREDITH WILD All I've ever wanted, since the day we met, was your trust. I want to be there for you, to help you... MEREDITH WILD Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tou... MEREDITH WILD Promises of his love, that he’d always protect me and keep me safe, filled the air around us until... MEREDITH WILD You're the only one who can bring me through this, because I've never trusted someone the way I trus... MEREDITH WILD This doesn't work. Being apart destroys us. I can't live without you Blake. I can barely survive a n... MEREDITH WILD I can't breathe without you, baby. You undo me and then put me back together whole again. You take i... MEREDITH WILD Yes. Hopelessly in love with you. Get used to it. Marriage is forever. MEREDITH WILD Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tou... MEREDITH WILD It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don't just take to move your ow... MEREDITH WILD Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary ... WILD THING Greenmail is, quite logically, blackmail of a different color. DAVID WILD i am not what i seem look past my surface and you might scream ANASTASIA WILD Fly Dog, fly! I will be your missing eye, and you will be my wings. MARGARET WILD As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ... MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. 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ELLE WILD When employees respect each other and get along in the workplace, it's amazing how productivity incr... MAUREEN WILD Your workers represent your company. It's very important that companies understand the true impact o... MAUREEN WILD It could be to celebrate a special occasion such as a promotion or a retirement. It could be to let ... MAUREEN WILD When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon. WILD BILL HICKOK How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the con... WILD BILL HICKOK I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls a... WILD BILL HICKOK My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I... WILD BILL HICKOK Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breat... WILD BILL HICKOK This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by... WILD BILL HICKOK There has been two awful fights in town this week. You don't know anything about such fighting a... WILD BILL HICKOK I have never insulted man or woman in my life, but if you knew what a wholesome regard I have for da... WILD BILL HICKOK Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run. WILD BILL HICKOK Dr. Livingstone, I presume. WILD BILL HICKOK I don't like to talk about that McCanles affair. It gives me a queer shiver whenever I think of ... WILD BILL HICKOK He's a very nice man. Big, I mean bigger than life. WILD BILL HICKOK Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world... JACK HERER I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old. JACK WHITEHALL With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. JACK NICHOLSON The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'... JACK REED The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils. JACK KIRBY Control your own destiny or someone else will. JACK WELCH I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy. JACK CANFIELD If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio... JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma... JACK KEROUAC If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea... JACK NICKLAUS It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att... JACK ZIPES Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal. JACK ZIPES In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration ... JACK ZIPES I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ... JACK ZIPES 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their... JACK ZIPES Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ... JACK ZIPES The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ... JACK ZIPES Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfu... JACK ZIPES What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th... JACK ZIPES I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am. JACK WHITTAKER It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off. JACK WHITTAKER If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it. JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet. JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs. JACK WHITTAKER I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes. JACK WHITTAKER Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&... JACK WHITEHALL I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing. JACK WHITEHALL Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're no... JACK WHITEHALL My dad doesn't hug me enough! JACK WHITEHALL I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I ... JACK WHITEHALL My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't suc... JACK WHITEHALL I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me. JACK WHITEHALL I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm... JACK WHITEHALL I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely. JACK WHITEHALL There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms. JACK WHITEHALL I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up. JACK WHITEHALL Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public scho... JACK WHITEHALL I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha... JACK WHITEHALL Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around. JACK WHITEHALL When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck te... JACK WHITEHALL Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the sa... JACK WHITEHALL I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ... JACK WHITEHALL If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing. JACK WHITEHALL I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is ... JACK WHITEHALL I vote for whoever will annoy my dad. JACK WHITEHALL When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp. JACK WHITEHALL I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in ... JACK WHITEHALL I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on. JACK WHITEHALL I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it. JACK WHITEHALL If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ... JACK WHITEHALL Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ... JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th... JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ... JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri... JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ... JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e... JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s... JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But... JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th... JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing... JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther... JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ... JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li... JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong... JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ... JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h... JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ... JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro... JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&... JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real... JACK WHITE One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo... JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous... JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'... JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to. JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea... JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. JACK WELCH There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ... JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y... JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins. JACK WELCH Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus... JACK WELCH A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ... JACK WELCH Change before you have to. JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone. JACK WELCH If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too. JACK WARNER I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday. JACK WARNER 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young... JACK WAGNER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &... JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate... JACK WAGNER By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak... JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On... JACK WAGNER I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la... JACK WAGNER We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ... JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou... JACK WAGNER My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe... JACK WAGNER My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co... JACK WAGNER Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. JACK WAGNER Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ... JACK WAGNER My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both. JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. 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