Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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The only people who attain power are those who crave it.
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It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that which is void of harmony from that which is harmonized. ...But there is no difference, whether this is asserted of harmony, or of order, or composition... the same reason will apply to all of these.
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I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
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'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.
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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.
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When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
