Erin McKean Quotes
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
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When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
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Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
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My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
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I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
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I would call on you to devote urgent attention to scaling this action up and look forward to learning about progress later in the year.
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Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.
