Alice McDermott Quotes
I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.Alice McDermott
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
Sally Watson -
I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
Katee Sackhoff -
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill
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I can do whatever I want.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
Jacob deGrom -
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
Macaulay Culkin -
I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
Edan Lepucki -
Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn -
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
Caity Lotz -
Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
Nancy McKeon -
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler -
Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
Adam Beach -
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady Gaga -
The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
N. Scott Momaday
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Each tetrad gives the etymology of its subject, as an uttering or outering of the body physical or mental, and provides its anatomy in fourfold exegetical manner.
Marshall McLuhan -
My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
Karl Rove -
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
Zebulon Pike -
I have always been reasonably anonymous, but I suppose that has gone with the success of 'Homeland.' I feel a lot more visible, which is good and bad. Good because I am getting recognition, but I am slightly apprehensive because I always enjoyed my anonymity.
David Harewood -
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
William James -
I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.
Alice McDermott