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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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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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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What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.
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Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
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There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart
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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
