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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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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The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.
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There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.
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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.
