Alice McDermott Quotes
I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I'm not super into sports.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.
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I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
