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.
Eddie Redmayne -
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
Abraham Verghese -
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black -
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
Ira Sachs -
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.
Victor Ponta -
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
Patrick Wilson -
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
Rachel Cohn -
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.
Vanessa Mae
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
Daniel Cormier -
I want to keep people guessing.
Natalie Dormer -
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.
Maidie Norman -
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward -
I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
Ma Jun -
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Barton Gellman
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Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.
Twyla Tharp -
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
Douglas Sirk -
I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
Pat Paulsen -
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
Dallas Roberts -
Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
Alice McDermott