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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Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
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And it's the same when there's a war on: it's the men who go to fightWomen and children are civilians, when they're killed it's not rightMen kill men in uniform, its the way war goesWhen they run they're cowards, when they stay they are heroes.
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Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.
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How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.
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The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.
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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.
