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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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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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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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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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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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working with Kendrick Lamar?" and really, it's like working with anyone else that I work with.
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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
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Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
