Alice McDermott Quotes
I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.
Alice McDermott
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
Salman Khan
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
Yael Naim
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
Gary Jennings
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
Ralph Marston
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I was born free.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
Jack LaLanne
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It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
Walt Handelsman
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
Walter Payton
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My imagination creates my reality.
Walt Disney
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The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.
Fernando Pessoa
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Cable television is such a part of our society now. Oftentimes, the shows are really good, and you're just like, 'Well, it's worth sitting through the sex and violence because the narrative is so great.'
Kerris Dorsey
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When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.
Phil Klay
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I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.
Alice McDermott