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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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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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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I like heels and make-up.
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America, it always felt cinematic and dreamlike and like a movie from the '70s or something.
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Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.
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…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
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Marines getting baptized? This used to be a place of men with pure warrior spirit. Chaplains are a goddamn waste.
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Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
