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.
Omari Hardwick -
When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
Kate Adie -
I'm a one-man idiot.
Eddie Izzard -
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
Ian Smith -
Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
Action Bronson
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It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
Carl Sagan -
A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.
Karen Salmansohn -
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. Edwards Deming -
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.
Patrick Duffy -
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.'
J. L. Austin -
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.
Rand Paul
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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
Yves Klein -
What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.
Warren Farrell -
Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
Alexander Pope -
This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
The conservative aptitude for stressing the 'individual responsibility' of all parties except themselves.
Christopher Hitchens -
I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?
Nancy E. Turner -
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Harrison Ford -
To the confusion of our enemies.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.
Emil Ferris -
I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
Alice McDermott