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Jim Crace Quotes

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

Jim Crace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Angry People Reading End Three Want

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

John C. Maxwell

Humility Learn You Those Around

I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life.

John Travolta

Life Family Me Singing Ups And Downs

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Stephen Ambrose

Live Government You Living Jury How

In my experience, nice guys are boring, and bad guys are fun to play.

Tom Everett Scott

Experience Fun Bad Play Nice Boring

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Future Live Society Planet Nowhere

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.

Jasper Carrott

Fear Eye Nothing Class Bank Always

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

Johnny Van Zant

Love Music Country Alive Blood Rock

I'm in Alabama. First thing I want to say is Roll Tide! I was at the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them!

Brian Jordan

Game Year Tide Say Want Sitting

Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Winning World Small Country Skills

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Alice Walker

Mother Future Woman People Me Black

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

Sylvester Stallone

School People Action Know Way Real

I'm not sure how writers and artists of other graphic novels join forces, but this is how the process worked for me: First, I produced my final script. Then, Mark Siegel, my editor at First Second, assembled information about 10 or 12 different artists and had me look through their portfolios to see what kind of styles appealed to me.

Sharon Shinn

Me Process Information Look Kind