Craig McCracken Quotes
You can say a lot with pictures. It's a visual medium - and especially with animation, you can do a lot that you can't do in live action.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
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The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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We all know that the besetting danger of Churches is formalism; the besetting danger of State action, of corporate action, is officialism and mechanism; and we all know that it is a drawback to many modern ideals that they rest upon materialism and a soulless secularism.
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Europe has been in my bones.
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You can say a lot with pictures. It's a visual medium - and especially with animation, you can do a lot that you can't do in live action.
