Alice McDermott Quotes
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I'm a one-man idiot.
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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
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Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
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Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
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It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
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A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.
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But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'
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All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.
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What seems to me to be driving our whole civilization toward the abyss at present is a one-sided conception of liberty, a conception that is purely centrifugal, that would get rid of all outer control and then evade or deny openly the need of achieving inner control.
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If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care. … My staff and technicians provide it. … If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
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Space is waiting for our love, as I am longing for you; go with me, travelling through space.. line in a poem of Klein himself
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
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I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
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God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
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The light was muted gray in the moment before sunrise and the birdsong was a hymn to the new day and all the glorious business of living in the moment.
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Home will always be London. There's something unique about the British. It's about cheekiness.
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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
