Alice McDermott Quotes
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
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Fight for what you believe in, speak your mind, and don't be afraid.
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You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny
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I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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I was one of those kids who always wrote.
