Erin McKean Quotes
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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You work for whatever you get in life.
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Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'
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I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
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The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
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When I make a commitment I stick to it.
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People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.
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The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.
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The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
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Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
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I experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. I’m a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I have the balls to take chances.
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Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.
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By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
