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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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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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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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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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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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
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It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set for the Last Summer tour, and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.
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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.
