Jim Crace Quotes
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
Taylor Sheridan -
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben -
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil -
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
Tate Donovan
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye -
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Oscar Levant -
'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
Hannah Simone -
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso -
When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
Malin Akerman -
I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.
Florence Henderson
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
Patrice O'Neal -
Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
Viktor Orban -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland -
It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin -
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
Patricia Richardson
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Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.
William Gilmore Simms -
To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
Matthew Arnold -
It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
Madchen Amick -
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.
Elmore Leonard -
I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.
Jim Crace