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John Crowley

"Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible."

Source : John Crowley (2015). “Little, Big”, p.193, Hachette UK

John Crowley

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“I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.”
“I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.”

Source : "Q&A: New Coyotes Coach Rick Tocchet on a Young Franchise and Lessons From Pittsburgh" by Alex Prewitt, sports.yahoo.com. September 7, 2017.
“I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.”
“To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.”
“You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.”
“I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.”

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