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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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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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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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
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The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
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At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.
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I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.
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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.
