Chris Crutcher Quotes
'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.
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A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
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'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
