Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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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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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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A novel is not a rant.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
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I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
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Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
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I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.
