Jim Crace 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 Campaign Quotes Decisions Quotes Enables Quotes Husbands Quotes Phrases Quotes Placate Quotes Plan Quotes Play Quotes Rehearse Quotes Routes Quotes Start Quotes Storytelling Quotes War Quotes Wives Quotes My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes. I’m very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I’m much less driven than they are. I don’t wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don’t suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.
Cai Guo-Qiang I do believe every artwork has its own charisma. Sometimes it’s different from what I expect. When a work is finished, it exudes its own charisma and lives its life independently. – Cai Guo-Qiang
Adam Curtis The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and women who ruled the British Empire slowly sailing to India and the Far East while sipping gin and tonic on deck – served by men in white jackets. – Adam Curtis
Colleen Ballinger I trained to sing well, but now I sing poorly for a living. That was money well spent. – Colleen Ballinger
Jaya Prada We need to raise our voice against the use of drugs and we need to save our youth. – Jaya Prada
Jane Goldman I really enjoy the company of my kids… I’m not one of those people who goes ‘Yeah, my kids are my mates’, that’s a dreadful kind of mother, but I’m fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world. – Jane Goldman
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