Alice McDermott Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?
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My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
