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Jim Crace Quotes

Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm asking you to think about land being seized in Brazil by soya barons. It's also a novel about immigration.

Jim Crace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Think Immigration You Harvest Land

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

Andrew Bird

Morning Time Me Start Trying Shape

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

Jeff Giles

Weird Stuff Scott Unsettling Writes

Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

Angela Braly

Opportunity Risks Control You Find

With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

John Rhys-Davies

Hope Best You Bad Turn Purse

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.

Stephen Greenblatt

Good Small Thought Enough Long Find

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

Travis Bradberry

Beauty Simple People You Say Social

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

Tom Paulin

Everyone Israel Who Supports Zionist

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

Robin S. Sharma

Success People Listening Care You

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

Lucy Griffiths

School Did Couple Operas

My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.

Lisa Jewell

Mother She Old Years Died

There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.

Constance Zimmer

People Hurt Because Off Been Much

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

Bode Miller

Ownership Know Said Say Way Mean