Jim Crace Quotes
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell -
I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
Ted Sarandos -
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
Jack Nicholson -
They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
Omar Sharif -
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
Laila Ali -
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey -
A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
Jackie Robinson -
'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
Mal Peet -
Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
T. J. Miller -
Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
Irene Rosenfeld
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker -
After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
Danger Mouse -
If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.
Garet Garrett -
Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
Jack Kemp -
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Victoria Woodhull -
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
Fidel Castro
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I think I have always had a little humor.
Marilyn Monroe -
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield -
Jesus find the same mistake in both the Saducees and the Pharisees, both those who collaborate with the Romans and those who oppose them. In the eyes of Jesus they are both wrong. He will not play any part in the political drama.
Jacques Ellul -
Under the grand coalition agreement, some compromise will obviously have to take place for things to work.
Ian Stannard -
I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.
Jim Crace