Chris Crutcher Quotes
The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Life is like an analogy.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.
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Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
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I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
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I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.
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Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.
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The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.
