Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Right now, I am doing the reverse of molecular gastronomy. I'm working with scientists to find ingredients and produce that are proven to be good for you.
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All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
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I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
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Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.
