Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'

Elizabeth McCracken

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I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

John Cusack

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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Anna Quindlen

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The world is such a small place.

Angela Robinson

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Control is what gives you privacy.

Michael Douglas

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All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.

Sri Chinmoy

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As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

Jay Parini

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It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

Jason Mraz

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A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.

Jonathan Groff

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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Dennis Potter

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With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Winston Churchill

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