Chris Crutcher Quotes
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.
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If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible.
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When I first went to work... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be up to the top notch to give satisfaction. I worked faster than I otherwise would have done, and to him I attribute the impetus that I acquired.
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I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.
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If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
