Jim Crace Quotes
Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.Jim Crace
Quotes to Explore
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie -
If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
Felicity Jones -
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist -
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
Irina Shayk -
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
Hailey Bieber -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
Zooey Deschanel -
I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
Im Dong-Hyun
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver -
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie -
People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
Cameron Winklevoss -
I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
Karen Gillan -
I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
Yani Tseng -
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner
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I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph -
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
Ian Mckellen -
I am the finest defensive player in the game.
Bobby Riggs -
I was born with six fingers on each hand.
Gemma Arterton -
I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.
Valerie Harper -
Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.
Jim Crace