Jim Crace Quotes
I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
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My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
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I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup.
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There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.
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Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.
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I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
