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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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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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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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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that's not good.
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If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.
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Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
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What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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Lots of people hate my stuff.
