Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Women are sacred.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.
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I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.
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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
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It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
