Jim Crace Quotes

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

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• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

  

  Barney Frank
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• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
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• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

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• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
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• To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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• Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

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• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

  Sam Kean
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• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
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• I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

  

  Jack Ma
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• Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

  

  Becky G
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• Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

  

  Elle Varner
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• I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

  

  Martin Freeman
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• If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

  

  Jocko Willink
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• Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

  

  Max Bill
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• Leaders need to compromise, negotiate with members of both parties and ideologies, and reform health care the right way - by developing a strong plan that encompasses the needs of all Americans.

  

  Charles Boustany
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• When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

  

  Jim Crace
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