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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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 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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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.
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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.
