Jim Crace Quotes
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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We should all love animals.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
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I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
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When I was a wee little kid, I used to watch 'Dark Shadows' all the time, so I was a Barnabas Collins fan.
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I think Sean could play running back. I think he could play receiver. I think he could play corner, ... Any expanded role is something we'll continue to work with because he's so unusual.
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Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
