Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
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Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive.
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Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
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All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.
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Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
