Jim Crace Quotes
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'
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It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
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Lots of people hate my stuff.
