Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
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I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.
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Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.
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I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.
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You ain't got the answers Sway!
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Fair use is not in the law.
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I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
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I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.
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They did not appear here because of injuries caused in European championships last month.
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I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.
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I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
