Jim Crace Quotes
The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.Jim Crace
Quotes to Explore
-
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Ovid -
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
Daniel Barber -
People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
Dan Phillips -
The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
Eddie Redmayne -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman
-
We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
Victoria Osteen -
No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
Adam Draper -
I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
Nancy Kress -
Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
Kalpana Chawla -
We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
Ice Cube
-
Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
Gavin Hood -
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild -
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
Wayne Dyer -
New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
Sachin Tendulkar -
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
Patrick Marber -
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
Quentin Tarantino
-
I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
Cameron Monaghan -
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra -
The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
Ari Fleischer -
My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
Eliot Spitzer -
I like eating pepperoni. I heat it up in the microwave and then I let it roast and then I eat it with cheese.
Willow Smith -
The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.
Jim Crace