Alice McDermott Quotes
Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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I've never been on a date.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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You base your actions on a projected ending, which you actually don't know. However, when you reach the crucial point, and the pinnacle event doesn't occur, you just need to go on, and something else will happen.
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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
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We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students.
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
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We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.
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Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
