No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see. Chris Crutcher More Quotes by Chris Crutcher More Quotes From Chris Crutcher If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you. Chris Crutcher mad scare different ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells. Chris Crutcher educational heart men You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system. Chris Crutcher hate christian white I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you. Chris Crutcher block running song Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown. Chris Crutcher known The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not. Chris Crutcher redemption character believe Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school. Chris Crutcher senior men school I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively. Chris Crutcher teens honest way There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift. Chris Crutcher perspective kings jesus Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need. Chris Crutcher voice years thinking A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas. Chris Crutcher integrity sports people You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book. Chris Crutcher be-careful use book Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better. Chris Crutcher acceptance trying love ...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. Chris Crutcher growing-up expectations school If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it. Chris Crutcher life-sucks doe thinking And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself. Chris Crutcher ifs shows thinking You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. Chris Crutcher mad language I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike. Chris Crutcher dark book thinking We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers and that whole lifestyle than he was to me. But somebody told me that if you really loved somebody,you stayed with him no matter what. You had to fight for him." She laughe. "Hell, I was convinced. Chris Crutcher crazy brother mean There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up. Chris Crutcher one-thing shut-up
