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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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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!

  

  Calista Flockhart
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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.

  

  Sam Graves
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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.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
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• Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

  

  Rand Paul
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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.

  

  Barry Manilow
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• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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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.

  

  Maisie Williams
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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.

  

  Campbell Scott
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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.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
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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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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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.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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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.

  

  Octavio Paz
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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.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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• A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

  

  Franz Wright
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• Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
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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.

  

  Jim Crace
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