"Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick."

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Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.199, Random House

Elizabeth McCracken

#Prayer Quotes #Engagement Quotes #Eating Quotes

“There's a generation of people that do fetishize books and do fetishize catalogues and do look at them as something important. The same thing with magazine culture: because magazines don't make the amount of money that they used to, it's become important again to another generation of people to actually read them. And it's very, very pinpointed to the select people that actually fetishize and go in and look at them.”
“Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.”
“Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.”
“I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.”

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“I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.”
“The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.”
“I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.”
“So when I'm working out I do things extreme.”

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