Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.
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Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.
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I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
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Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
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Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixation of languages. (p. 229)
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I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.
