Jim Crace Quotes

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

Jim Crace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 1, 1946

Topics

WordsThinkYouSprayHeardBeetle

When the audience expects you to do a good job, you become more choosy. It becomes a responsibility.

Sridevi

GoodResponsibilityJobYouBecome

As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

Sonny Mehta

WorkJobChampionAlwaysSeeI See

Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece of music is doing to them internally.

Rob Halford

MusicCreativityPerceptionCriticism

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

Michele Bachmann

GodPrayerMeSpeakFeelBelieving

All my characters have playlists.

Michael K. Williams

Characters

People may say we got engaged too quickly or too young, but sometimes you just know it is right. That's how it is with Cheryl. I don't want anyone else.

Ashley Cole

PeopleYouKnowYoungSometimesSay

There wasn't anyone who was specifically taking me under their wing. I definitely looked up to people, though, one major person being Naomi Campbell, of course. That's, like, a given.

Winnie Harlow

PeopleMePersonUpBeingLike

I've always been fascinated by the desert.

Petra Collins

DesertAlwaysBeenFascinated

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Peter DeFazio

SeptemberWhoIraqAttackedSaddam

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

Penn Jillette

FamilyHopeSportsGreatMissingUp

Do I seem to play characters that in the end don't get the girl? Maybe. But you don't always get the girl or the guy, and there has to be someone to play that.

Scott Foley

GirlEndSomeoneYouPlayAlways

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Thorstein Veblen

StrengthGoodCommunityNameLeisure

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