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

• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• 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

• From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Always
  • Questions
  • Answer

• 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

• In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• 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

• But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Up
  • May
  • Political

• We should have an easier name to pronounce.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

• Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

  

  David Ignatius

• I kind of like "love what you do" better. Wherever you are just be good at it, embrace it, love it. Eventually success will find you.

  

  Ben Chestnut
  • Love
  • Success
  • Better

• Choose what you actually want to do rather than what you think will impress people on Facebook. Ironically, when you do this, something amazing happens; what you produce stands a better chance of getting recognition. Not just on Facebook, but in the real world.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• 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