Alice McDermott Quotes
For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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Terrorists are desperate assholes who see no institutionalized recourse to address their grievances, so they resort to random acts of violence in order to instill fear into the general population.4
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For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.
