Alice McDermott Quotes

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

Alice McDermott

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• The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

  

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• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

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• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
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• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

  

  Maluma
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• We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
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• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
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• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

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• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  

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• I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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• Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

  

  Gary Numan
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• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  

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• I busted my tail for so long, I'm just glad it's getting recognized now as part of the WWE. Because let's face it, the WWE is the biggest company out there when it comes to wrestling. I'm just happy that I'm being recognized as somebody who works hard, I guess.

  

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• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

  

  Rafer Johnson
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• Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that, I was able to design my own stuff and designed my own logo.

  

  Alan Walker
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• Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Experience
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• Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
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• Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Feeling
  • Faith
  • Church