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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Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
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This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
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Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.
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I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.
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I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.
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When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.
