Alice McDermott Quotes
In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.Alice McDermott
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
Saint Bernard -
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
Vicky McClure -
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Daniel De Leon -
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
Felix Baumgartner -
Sharing is the essence of social media.
Zoe Sugg -
I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
Walton Goggins
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
Usher -
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei -
I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
Adam Carolla -
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
Earl Weaver
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
I never felt like I had a mother.
Quincy Jones -
Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
Dakota Johnson -
For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
Gabriella Wilde -
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
G. Stanley Hall
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It is one of the unhappy incidents of the federal system that a self-righteous Supreme Court, acting on its Members' personal view of what would make a 'more perfect Union' (a criterion only slightly more restrictive than a 'more perfect world') can impose its own favored social and economic dispositions nationwide.
Antonin Scalia -
People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
Zach Anner -
I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.
Teddy Sears -
Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.
Bahá'u'lláh -
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
Nadine Gordimer -
In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
Alice McDermott