Jim Crace Quotes
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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I write music every day.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
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Reacher hated turning back. He liked to press on, dead ahead, whatever. Everyone's life needed an organizing principle, and relentless forward motion was Reacher's.
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I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
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I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had.
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.
