Alice McDermott Quotes

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1953

Topics

FaithMeTalkWithoutInstitution

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

Joe Gold

WorkGoldWorldGymOverOut

Take away our things, and something in us dies.

Andre Aciman

ThingsTakeAwaySomethingUsOur

I'm very cognizant of the image that's being put out there and the way in which people perceive me. I'm honored and flattered that they see me as being a decent human being. I try my best to be a decent human being, but I fall short of the mark like we all do on a regular basis.

Sterling K. Brown

BestPeopleMeShortFallWay

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

Stanley Baldwin

TruthDiversityI AmTestimonyMuch

You must take a definite idea, set it in the centre of your thinking, and then logically arrange your furthest thoughts in such a way that they are all closely linked with the original idea. Even if you do this for only a minute, it can be of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.

Rudolf Steiner

GreatThoughtsThinkingYouWay

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Josh Billings

GoodHomeAgeThinkYouCry

It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.

DeRay Mckesson

MoneyI Have LearnedRunTalkMeans

'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.

Dean Devlin

New YorkMeant To BeNewChicago

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

Brad Bird

ThinkFeelLookMoviesMoreReal

I'm kind of an animated person. I was given this really big blessing that my voice just kind of carries the emotion.

Auli'i Cravalho

BlessingVoicePersonKindEmotion

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Susan Sontag

PeopleThinkSuicideSexAIDS

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

Tim Curry

AdolescentMuchArrestedVeryMozart

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