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.Elizabeth McCracken
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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.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
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.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke -
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde -
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
Jackson Browne -
Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
Orlando Bloom -
Language is fun; it's fun to try.
Lars Mikkelsen -
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.
Gavyn Davies -
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.
Weili Dai -
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.
R. J. Cutler
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
Maggie Hassan -
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.
Mackenzie Davis -
I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.
Vance McAllister -
You ain't got the answers Sway!
Kanye West -
Fair use is not in the law.
Jack Valenti -
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.
Elodie Yung -
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
Patti LaBelle -
I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.
Kaya Scodelario -
I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.
Rickie Fowler -
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
John Barton -
I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
Elizabeth McCracken