Jim Crace Quotes

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

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• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Chance
  • Hold

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Important
  • Emotional

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Go

• Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Young
  • Hollywood
  • Eat

• One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Cry

• Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Goal

• When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • School
  • Remember
  • Problems

• The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Believe
  • History

• When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Look
  • Try
  • Employer

• Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

  

  David Bowie
  • May

• I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home

• Meeting Anna-Louise was like finding a stranger's shopping list on the mall floor and realising there are other, more interesting diets than your own. It was the first time I ever felt incomplete.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Shopping

• Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

  

  Socrates
  • Hurt
  • Hit
  • Slanderers

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

  

  Jim Crace