Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Elizabeth McCracken

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LightHumorWritingStoryShortYou

CIA relies on a partner's focus, linguistic agility, and cultural depth; in return, the partner benefits from CIA's resources, technology, and global view.

Michael Hayden

TechnologyFocusPartnerViewDepth

If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.'

Stephenie Meyer

SoulAheadMoreTwoNextWould

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Stewart Copeland

GoodVisionGreatJobOperaWhole

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

Rod Laver

TimeGameYouAheadNeverUp

I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised my hand to ask a question of the school president, and he said, 'See me after class.' And the rest is history.

Robin Quivers

HistorySchoolMeRestVoiceThink

I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that... I can bring a constructive mood to the table.

Roberto Azevedo

MeSmallActionThinkTableI Can

I'm just an ordinary judge from California.

Joseph Wapner

JudgeCaliforniaOrdinaryJust

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

Derek Walcott

HistoryWorldMeanEuropeEthnic

'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.

Colson Whitehead

AgeMeBlackDrivingYoungTaught

With 'Suffragette,' I felt that a female writer would be good, and considering the subject matter, who would be better to write the script than Abi Morgan? She was the first choice, and she happens to be a woman.

Alison Owen

GoodWomanBetterChoiceMatterShe

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.

Susan Egan

LifeMotherhoodMy OwnEvolvingOwn

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

Sebastian Horsley

LoveWomenMeWantDislikeHappens

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