Jim Crace Quotes
After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.
Jim Crace
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
Wanda Sykes
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
Nathan Hale
Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
Ma Long
If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
Wayne Huizenga
I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
Walter Mosley
I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun.
Chauncey Billups
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.
Charlotte Mary Yonge
I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.
Fred Durst
Limp Bizkit
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
Bodhidharma
I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.
Fred Willard
After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.
Jim Crace