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.
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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.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I always drive like a madman.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Act because you love to act.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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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.
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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.
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It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
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It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
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When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.
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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.
