Jim Crace Quotes
For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.
Jim Crace
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
Ralph Steadman
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
Vik Muniz
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
Parker Posey
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
Nathan Myhrvold
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
Felicity Kendal
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Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.
Irwin Winkler
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So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.
Adam Lambert
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So we got fifty percent. Babe Ruth didn't do no better. - Did you mean hittin' it... or throwin' it?
Walt Kelly
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You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.
David Dinkins
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Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.
Fuzzy Zoeller
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.
C. S. Lewis
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For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.
Jim Crace