Jim Crace Quotes

Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.

Jim Crace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryLandscapeAlwaysToneBeen

With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

Joe Bastianich

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You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

Jesse Williams

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I'm a fighter through and through, and I've got more heart and more determination than anybody.

Michael Bisping

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One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Alvin Ailey

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The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.

Tom Tancredo

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Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Mike Ditka

LifeFitnessBestBelieveGiftBody

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

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As I get older and maybe a little bit wiser, you realize how much stuff affects your body and what it can do. Cutting out carbs and sweets and trying to eat just proteins and fruits and stuff like that, more natural stuff, is what I have found has had the biggest impact on me.

Jay Cutler

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You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

Dax Shepard

PeopleSorryPublic DomainYouKnow

There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there.

Dawn Richard

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I think the first concert I attended was Coldplay with my dad when I was around eight years old.

Daya

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