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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Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
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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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Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.
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Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.
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Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.
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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.
