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.Elizabeth McCracken
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
Gary Locke -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
Parker Posey -
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.
Patrick Dempsey -
The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
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.
Dalai Lama
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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.'
Dan Brown -
Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
Larry Ellison -
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.
Zana Marjanovic -
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.
Dan Webster -
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.
Larry Fitzgerald -
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.
Takeshi Kitano
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I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx -
Women are sacred.
Vin Diesel -
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
Parminder Nagra -
When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
Garry Shandling -
A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
J. D. Souther
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
J. K. Simmons -
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
Zadie Smith -
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones -
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
Daniel Goleman -
For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
Johnny Vegas -
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.
Elizabeth McCracken