Alice McDermott Quotes
I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I drink a lot of water.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
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I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I made too many mistakes in the games - throwing, fielding, pitching. So far, this season has been weird to me. I can't worry about that. I have to worry about the future and cut some of my pitches per inning, and that's what we'll do. I have 30 more starts to go.
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Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
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I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
