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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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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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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What I love is getting polarized opinions.
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Foreign students... big part of our economy.
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That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
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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.
