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Jim Crace Quotes

My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Education Character Man People Say

You can tell if you feel like you are unable to recover from the workout you had. It's still hard to breathe. You don't have energy. You are sore instantly. You just can't seem to get enough water. Then it's too hard.

Water Energy Feel Enough You Hard

I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

Winter Women Children Me Calm Never

I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.

Age Old Age People Exercise I Can

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Work Experience Religious Many

I was involved in Occupy Wall Street as a participant and poster artist. 'Shell Game' is an attempt to do something bigger, to use whatever artistic powers I have to explore the excitements and betrayals of that year.

Molly Crabapple

Game Year Artist Wall Street Bigger

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

Love Time Ignorance Parents Youth

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.

Dance Creative Parents Me Finding

Charlotte is a very interesting place - I'm Canadian, but I've lived in Toronto, Vancouver, and I've been living here in L.A. for years.

Diego Klattenhoff

Interesting Place Living Toronto

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Douglas Alexander

Way Borrowing Taxation Approach Set

I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.

Donatella Versace

Feel High Heels Naked Without High

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

History Me World Language Powerful

The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

Work Opportunity Best Advice Comedy

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