Alice McDermott Quotes
You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.
Alice McDermott
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
T. J. Miller
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
Ian Somerhalder
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
Zara Larsson
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It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.
Matthew Walker
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I think that luxury is to be used when you are in your jeans and your T-shirt and you want to feel a little extra special, and you want to go and walk into a store and have somebody go, "Wow, what is that?" Maybe that's the one and only thing you give yourself that day, but I think women like to give that to themselves.
Charlize Theron
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There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
Bill Janklow
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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Lisa See
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You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.
Alice McDermott
