Alice McDermott Quotes

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.

  

  Vince Gill
  • People
  • Real
  • Amazing

• I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Acting
  • Looks
  • Get

• You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Know

• I always drive like a madman.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Like
  • Always
  • Drive

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Serious
  • Enjoy

• I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Business
  • Best
  • New

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Love
  • You
  • Losing

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Proud
  • Actor
  • Working

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Down

• Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

  

  James Geary

• I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Mind
  • Stock

• Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?'

  

  Claire Messud
  • People
  • Women
  • Scary

• Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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• A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

  

  Alice McDermott
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