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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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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Act because you love to act.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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Don't overdo it. Don't over-diet, over-exercise, overeat, overdo the makeup, and don't stress out.
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I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.
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I think everything I've tried to do, whether or not it's come off that way immediately, is for the greater good. I'll take the jabs I need to in order to help us all in the long run.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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.
