Alice McDermott Quotes
I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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To lead people walk behind them.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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Sports can't be run by governments.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.
