Alice McDermott Quotes
No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
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I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write anything down because you're going to end up coming back and re-writing it later. Whereas, if you write when you're feeling something, when you're really in the streak, then that's when you're going to get your best stuff.
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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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That's where the money is, on the road.
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No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
