Jim Crace Quotes
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
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All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - 'Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.'
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I was exposed to jazz early on.
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The economy is so bad, I saw Matthew McConaughey talking to himself in a Kia! THAT'S how bad it is!
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It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.
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When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.
