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
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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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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
Harlan Coben
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I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.
Elle King
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It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
Janet Yellen
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As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
David O. McKay
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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
Janine di Giovanni
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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
