Alice McDermott Quotes

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeThinkLookNowOutsideNeed

There is definitely a thematic lineage between 'Descender' and my previous work, like 'Sweet Tooth' and 'Trillium.'

Jeff Lemire

WorkSweetSweet ToothLikeBetween

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

Steve Wynn

LivePeopleBubbleStrangeOwnLike

I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.

Ron Howard

YesWouldDocumentaryAboutJay-Z

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

GodHopeBestWorldYouWorst

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

Joshua Foer

GoodFireLaughterKissLanguage

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

Jonathan Glazer

WorkHappyThinkingDoingNever

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.

Don Bluth

SmartEnoughYouSheHerJust

So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog.

Draymond Green

LifeDogManThinkYouGoal

Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love.

Debi Mazar

LoveGoodMemoriesTimeFoodMom

Someone with 4As at A-level from Eton may look good on paper and come across as very smooth, but push a bit more, and often you get the impression they have learned to pass exams rather than think for themselves.

Cherie Blair

GoodThinkPushSomeoneYouLook

To be ECW champion is something that I take very, very seriously.

CM Punk

ChampionSeriouslyTakeSomething

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Bob Hope

MoneyYouPlaceProveWillNeed

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