Jim Crace Quotes
When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
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I always try to follow my moral compass.
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The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy.
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The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
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Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But most where trees are sending Their breezy boughs on high, Or stooping low are lending A shelter from the sky. And there in those wild bowers A lovely form is laid; Green grass and dew-steeped flowers Wave gently round her head.
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When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.
