Erin McKean Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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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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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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I became one of the stately homos of England.
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.
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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
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I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.
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Those are the stakes that are constantly there and how do those stakes change you? How does that change the person you are? If it does just turn out to be about survival then is that living? How does that make you, you? How does that change your identity? That picture of the governor, his wife, and his daughter, he wasn't that guy before this all started. People dying around him changed him into that.
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Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
