Jim Crace Quotes
Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.
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Research the leaders in fields related to yours, synthesize their findings, and see how you can apply their hard-won wisdom to your work. Stand on their shoulders, and then make a leap into new territory that is distinctly yours.
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Transparency doesn't mean much if the consumer doesn't understand what they're looking at.
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Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
