Jim Crace Quotes
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
Quotes to Explore
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I never was a very good singer.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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It's still stiff and still sore. It's the same as yesterday. I'm day to day.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
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I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
