Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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Although I eat healthily, I do enjoy a greasy fry-up, but usually only once a year. I've also got a big Kit-Kat addiction and buy them in bulk.
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In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
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In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.
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Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.
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Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
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