Chris Crutcher Quotes
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
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Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.
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There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
