Jim Crace Quotes
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.
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In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
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I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
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I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
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To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
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China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.
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I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.
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I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you'd be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, and then a song would come on. You'd love that song forever; it changed your life.
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
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You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
