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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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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I do not like violence.
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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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...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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Prayer is an effort of will.
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Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.
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DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.
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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.'
