Chris Crutcher Quotes
The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.
Quotes to Explore
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
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The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?
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Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.
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Smith had no illusion that this would be easy to do, nor did he suffer from the delusion that such an exercise would, in any sense, be perfect. But he did have the conviction that the exercise could still be very useful, and the best should not be made into an enemy of the good.
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I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.
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The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.
