Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Consequently, in the chain of reactions accompanying the creative act, a link is missing. This gap which represents the inability of the artist to express fully his intention, this difference between what he intended to realize and did realize, is the personal 'art coefficient', contained in the work.
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I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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Nothing was easy for us coming up. But we were rich in family.
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I'm not chasing independence, I'm chasing Walt Disney. I'm looking for a large piece of that box-office pie, not a tiny piece of that box-office pie.
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In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
