Alice McDermott Quotes

Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeMemoriesMemoryWillAlways

One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that I see a lot more mixed-race couples than I saw when I was growing up in the 1980s and the 1990s. I feel like living across the color lines has become something that's more expected.

Jesmyn Ward

MeGrowing UpColorFeelNowLiving

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus

MedicalSchoolThinkThinkingYou

I love people. I enjoy people.

John Catsimatidis

LovePeopleEnjoyI Love

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long , it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

Meles Zenawi

StupidLongRiskThingsWatchBeen

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Soren Kierkegaard

WorldInterestingAdmitSheAlways

Every fight's like that. You try to break the guy's will.

Stipe Miocic

FightYouWillTryBreakGuy

Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.

Tom Catena

FoodPeopleRoadFarmYouCut

Trust me: I was the most bullish on 'Deadpool.' When I was day one on the set, I said, 'This is going to open at $75 million,' and they all said, 'Shut up, Liefeld; you're jinxing us.'

Rob Liefeld

TrustDayMeYouSaidShut Up

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Rudolph A. Marcus

ChildParentsGrowing UpLovingUp

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

Lorna Luft

BusinessWomanManGayLeading

I prefer to work with mystery, but that doesn't work well in an academic environment. They want you to analyze what you're doing, which is toxic to the creative process for people like me.

Julia Holter

WorkCreativePeopleMeDoingYou

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

Julia Roberts

WorkCommunicationScienceChallenge

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