Alice McDermott Quotes
At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
Alice McDermott
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
Patrick Kane
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
Ted Cruz
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
Mahershala Ali
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
Ian Hacking
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
Lance Henriksen
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Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.
Mawra Hocane
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
Kate Moss
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Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
Betty Smith
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We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we're all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I'm excited to do is to get to explore that.
Channing Dungey
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At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
Alice McDermott