Blake Crouch Quotes
If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises' when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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We don't do this kind of work for awards or to be recognised. We do this to share stories with the world.
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I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.
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If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises' when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.
