Elizabeth Crook Quotes
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine Texas in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
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Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.
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I want to be that counted-on guy to score goals.
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With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.
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I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.
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I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine Texas in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.
