Alice McDermott Quotes
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
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I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
