Alice McDermott Quotes

I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets.

Alice McDermott

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• The patient decides when it's best to go.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Medical
  • Patient

• If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Character
  • Pretty

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Home
  • Focus

• Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Food
  • Morning

• The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Attention
  • Commitment

• I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • World
  • Health

• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Design
  • Dress
  • Uniform

• Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.

  

  Iain Banks

• Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Women
  • Black
  • Perfect

• I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Truth

• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Life
  • Country
  • Space

• I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Home
  • Hero

• I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Up

• When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Fall
  • Church
  • Sin

• To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.

  

  John Dickerson
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Company

• I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets.

  

  Alice McDermott