Alice McDermott Quotes
I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'
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Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?
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I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
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I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
