Jim Crace Quotes
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
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Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
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Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
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Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
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The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.
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I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.
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I hate to cook and love to eat.
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I hate musicals. There, I said it.
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I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
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I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.
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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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I want an opportunity to fight the best in the world and make millions of dollars doing it.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.
