Alice McDermott Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
Irene Joliot-Curie -
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
Laetitia Casta -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
Malcolm D. Lee
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
Octavia Spencer -
I'm not a Democrat.
Aaron McGruder -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Kate Millett -
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
Kate Brown -
My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
Maajid Nawaz -
Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
Karisma Kapoor -
What you see is what you get.
Van Morrison -
You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
Felicity Jones
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
Eddie Bracken -
The PQ is diverse and vast. It's not monolithic.
Marine Le Pen -
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.
Lee Tamahori -
Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used.
Douglas Coupland -
I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.
Alice McDermott