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.
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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.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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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.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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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.
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I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
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Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
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NyQuil, NyQuil, NyQuil! We love you, you giant fucking 'Q'!
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If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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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.
