Jim Crace Quotes

The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

Jim Crace

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• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Know
  • Plans
  • Production

• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Nothing
  • Talking
  • Someone

• I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Body
  • Letters

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Want
  • Body

• When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Running
  • Water
  • Electricity

• I was physically abused and I retaliated.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Physically

• Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Happy
  • British
  • Dialect

• There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Man
  • Animals
  • WIld

• I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • First
  • Survive

• Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Green
  • Virtue
  • Reward

• I am not a fashion freak!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Fashion
  • Freak

• The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Done
  • Age

• I've been coaching how many years? A long time.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Time
  • Long
  • Coaching

• Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Been
  • Well
  • Taiwan

• When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Best
  • Speak
  • Celebrity

• I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you're raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there's no one right answer.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Different
  • Celebrity

• There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • World
  • Real
  • Fear

• One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

  

  DMX
  • People
  • Hate
  • Celebrity

• I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

  

  Clare Balding
  • World
  • Women

• The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Celebrity