Jim Crace Quotes
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.
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Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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I'm in good shape.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.
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Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
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Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
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But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.
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I'm a very secretive person.
