Craig McCracken Quotes
I don't really have time to approve every shirt and sticker that gets made but I have been heavily involved in the big stuff like toys.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.
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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
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I don't really have time to approve every shirt and sticker that gets made but I have been heavily involved in the big stuff like toys.
