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.

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• All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Man
  • Him

• Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Love
  • Wonderful

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
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• My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

  

  Natalie Cole
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  • Example

• 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
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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
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  • Duty
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• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
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• If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
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• 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
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• 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
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• In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
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• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

  Os Guinness
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• If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

  

  Narendra Modi
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  • Truth
  • Propaganda

• People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.

  

  Karen Allen
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  • Know
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• But I want to do good work, after this series.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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  • Work
  • Good Work

• The people taking care of our children and our parents, they deserve a good wage, good benefits, and a secure retirement. And, it’s crucial that every American have access to the education and skills they need to get the jobs of the future. So we will fight to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone.

  

  Hillary Clinton
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• I want to tell everybody to celebrate every day, to savor the day and be good to yourself, love yourself, and then you can be good to others and be of service to others.

  

  Charlotte Rae
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• I can do anything I set my mind to if I believe and am realistic.

  

  Aleks Paunovic
  • Believe
  • I Can
  • Realistic

• George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

  

  Peter Mayhew
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• Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• 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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  • Writing