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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There are different ways that people feel like it should be done. Any way that you can add a player -- I don't care if it's a trade, the draft, free agency -- I want to be aggressive. Free agency is a place where you make fewer mistakes because you're not trying to project somebody from a college environment to the pros. You've got somebody that has already played up here and been successful.
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Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults, and so I'd like to try a book for children. And I tell them that when they have learned enough to write for an adult perhaps a child will listen to them.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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The soul is one with its faith.
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Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.
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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.
