Jim Crace Quotes
In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
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The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple.
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In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.
