Alice McDermott Quotes
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
Alice McDermott
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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'?
Wale
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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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.
Jack Canfield
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
Samantha Power
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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.
Caitlin Moran
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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.
Ma Jun
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney
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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?
Mara Wilson
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
Jackie Cooper
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
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I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you recognize it, do you abide by that, do you define yourself as that? Based on who we are and what we've been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors.
Ava DuVernay
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My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.
Jimmy Carter
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Although I would like the negative balanced with the positive, what really bothers me is if it's not real. You can add humanity to what might look like a negative role.
Emily Kuroda
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I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.
Jacqueline Bisset
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Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.
María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
Alice McDermott
