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Erin McKean Quotes

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1971

Topics

Job Words Doing Will Most Novelty

'Shotgun Stories' and 'Take Shelter'... I was willing to make those with no money and no time. With 'Mud,' I just wanted to protect it until I could have the resources. It's a real tricky movie.

Time Money Protect Mud Resources

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Sex Human Capable Endeavor Without

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

Community Small Rich You Career Out

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

Rosemary Mahoney

Vision Eyes Brain Speak Learn Born

The tale of the actor struggling to make it is oft-told for a reason.

Actor Reason Make Struggling Tale

So I have, like, more than a 100 cousins all over the world now.

World Now More Cousins Over Like

I chose to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother.

Family Brother Parents Stay Close

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

Live Health Climb Long Powerful Why

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Cornelius Nepos

Government Safe Goodwill Unless

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

Colman McCarthy

Everyone Vegetarian Meals Being Like

Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'

Positive People Me Potential Fall

The attributes we're focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.

Fear Mind Behavior Place Focused

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