Jim Crace Quotes

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

Jim Crace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkWarStartDecisionsPlanPlay

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Jim Hightower

GovernmentAnymoreCorporationsLobby

It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I've proven over time to be a great leader.

Joe Lhota

LeaderGreatTimeGovernmentSchool

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

Matt Harvey

BetterSayJustMuchElse

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

Steve Reich

MusicProcessSameInterestedSeldom

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Rodman Philbrick

GoodChildrenImaginationWrite

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Mary Kay Ash

GoodBusinessPeopleCompanyOnly

There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.

Michael Sheen

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There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

Juan Gabriel

SadHappyWriteViceSomething

My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.

Ali Fazal

GrandfatherSayUnfairHonestWould

I have everything that I would possibly imagine. I have a family that loves me and that's... more than most kids have. And it's really awesome for me to experience this life... because most kids don't have this life, and I'm trying to reach out to them and help them.

Willow Smith

LifeFamilyExperienceMeHelpMore

I don't sing in the shower.

Peggy Whitson

ShowerSing

Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality.

Shawn Achor

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