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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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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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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A soldier told Pelopidas, 'We are fallen among the enemies.' Said he, 'How are we fallen among them more than they among us?'
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The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
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As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.
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It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
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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.
