Jim Crace Quotes
When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them.
Quotes to Explore
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.
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I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.
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Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life.
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I think it speaks volumes for not only our soccer program at Hilton Head High, but student athletes at Hilton Head High. That they're definitely concerned with in-the-classroom performance as well as on-the-field performance.
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When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them.
