Chris Crutcher Quotes
The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
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Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
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The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
