Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

Elizabeth McCracken

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• Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Me
  • Nervous
  • Mouth

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Grow

• As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Boy
  • Famous
  • Run

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• Singing is a prayer to me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Prayer

• George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Always
  • Said
  • Rip

• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Help
  • Girl
  • Look

• I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Dr. Ron Paul
  • Dr. Ron Paul Lite

• The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Line
  • Limit

• This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • President
  • Recovery
  • Lead

• We see then, commodities are in love with money, but 'the course of true love never did run smooth'.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • True

• Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Live

• So I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile.If I’m gonna go down, I’m gonna do it with style,and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess,'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Style
  • Smile
  • Jump

• I've got seven MAC-11s, about eight .38s, nine 9s, ten MAC-10s. The shits never end, you can't touch my riches. Even if you have MC Hammer and them 3-5-7 bitches.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.

• You cut your life down for spite!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life

• My wife Kari and I have three incredible kids. And like parents everywhere, we want our children to grow up in a country and a world that is peaceful, and where, if they work hard, they can reach their God-given potential.

  

  Denis McDonough
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Sweet

• It's cool that people enjoy my work. That's fun for me that people, like going to my movies and enjoy all the hard work that everyone put into it. I think that's the biggest reward, to know that everyone enjoyed the movies with me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Career
  • Assume
  • Smoothly

• I'm easy. Very easy. I'll tell you why I am easy. If someone is no good, I get rid of them. It is no good being tough on somebody who can't do the job. If he can do the job, then there is no point in being tough with him.

  

  Harry Triguboff
  • Job
  • Easy

• Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken