Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.
Quotes to Explore
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
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Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.
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If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.
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Der Lehrer der Liebe lehrt den Kampf, der Lehrer der lieblosen Isolierung von aller Welt aber die Ruhe.
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It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.
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I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.
