Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.
Quotes to Explore
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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I always played to win.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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Television isn't my career. Business is.
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Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.
