Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
Elizabeth McCracken
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
Garth Brooks
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Rachel Johnson
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Barry Eichengreen
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Bronowski
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Do you not remember me, Nicodemus, who believed in naught but the laws and decrees and was in continual subjection to observances? And behold me now, a man who walks with life and laughs with the sun from the first moment it smiles upon the mountain until it yields itself to bed behind the hills.
Kahlil Gibran
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Guys and girls can be friends without having to date!
Katherine McNamara
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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Jeremiah Wright
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I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
Bill Bryson
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
Peter Dinklage
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Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
Elizabeth McCracken
