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.'Alice McDermott
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
Kate Dickie -
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.
Kalpana Chawla -
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Ian Frazier -
A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
Carlene Carter -
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei -
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.
Maggie Hassan
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper -
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
Warren Farrell -
As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge -
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Aaron Levie
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
Fat Joe -
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett -
I do not like violence.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
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.
Malcolm Gladwell -
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky -
I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl
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America is nation of people striving to make life better for themselves and for their families.
Kevin McCarthy -
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen, Sr. -
I record all night and sleep all day.
Damian Marley -
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
Jennifer Connelly -
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.
Denise Mina -
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.'
Alice McDermott