Jim Crace Quotes

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

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• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Education

• In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Want

• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Communication

• I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Want
  • Know

• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Depressed

• Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Book
  • True
  • Future

• I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.

  

  Carly Craig
  • Me
  • City
  • Brave

• I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • You
  • Know
  • Laugh

• You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Commitment

• I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Christian
  • Positive
  • Messages

• Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Life
  • Daughter
  • Shoes

• Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

  

  Edith Schaeffer

• A victim of God may,Through learning adaption,Become a partner of God,A victim of God may,Through forethought and planning,Become a shaper of God.Or a victim of God may,Through shortsightedness and fear,Remain God’s victim,God’s plaything,God’s prey.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God
  • May
  • Fear

• I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

  

  Eminem
  • Mind
  • Lost

• The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life

• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Children
  • Grandparents

• We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of caste and class. We are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Up
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• I often stop when I'm doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think 'Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now'. So far, I've been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last.

  

  David Tennant
  • Good
  • Job
  • Stop

• The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

  

  Plutarch
  • Wounds
  • Cried
  • Pollution

• 'Caddyshack' touched people; so did 'Tron.' 'Caddyshack' is a lifestyle, and 'Tron' is more religious, spiritual, but both are very emotional responses.

  

  Cindy Morgan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Like

• I think that the people who really accomplish things in this world have to have a little bit of crazy in them.

  

  Allison Joseph
  • Crazy
  • Things
  • Accomplish

• I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

  

  Jim Crace