Alice McDermott Quotes
I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
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I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.
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I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.
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Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.
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I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
