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.
Jackie Robinson -
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant -
I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
Kate Micucci -
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.
Orison Swett Marden -
You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Patrick Marber -
The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
Zoe Sugg -
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. Mencken -
Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
Dada Vaswani -
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.
Wagner Moura -
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.
Gail Sheehy
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac -
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.
Felicity Jones -
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
Zoe Sugg -
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
Ralph Marston -
If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
Yoko Ono
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I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.
Halima Aden -
There's no such thing as anybody who can't be beat; everybody can be beat. It's a question of how hard you're willing to work. It's a question of the environment, the surroundings. Frankly, there's a lot of issues with timing.
Pete Gallego -
I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.
Anne-Marie -
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
Karen DeCrow -
Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.
Kristen Stewart -
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
Alice McDermott