Jim Crace Quotes
I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
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Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.
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When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.
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It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
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I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.
