Alice McDermott Quotes
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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I want to keep people guessing.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.
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It was the error of Israel to put the law in God’s place, to make the law their God and their God a law.
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Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
