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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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
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Worship is about God relationship. I need to remember to keep it that simple.
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And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.
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I'm a very secretive person.
