Alice McDermott Quotes

No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatBabyWritingStartYouLooks

Land really is the best art.

Andy Warhol

NatureArtBestLandReally

When my friends and I grew up, we had 'Full House,' 'Growing Pains' and 'Roseanne.' These sitcoms were about something, about real people in a sense. They sort of super-sized real life where things aren't necessarily exactly how you go through them in daily life, but you can relate to something, and you can pull something out of it.

Steve Kazee

LifeDailyDaily LifePeopleFriends

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

Soleil Moon Frye

SpaceMeMomBelieveShortEnough

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

HappinessWisdomAloneInvestingUs

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

Travis Kalanick

ThinkEngineersBuildStorytelling

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

Robin Wright

ChildrenTogetherEnjoyOutActOur

What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top.

Mary Gauthier

TopLikeReally

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Michel Foucault

StrengthPowerSocietyNameComplex

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.

Jason Momoa

ChildrenThingsWatchAllowedLot

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

Douglas Rushkoff

PeopleControlThoughtGivingApple

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

Brett Ratner

HomeDinnerFriendsVanityFairSit

That was my trick. I interned a lot.

Brad Paisley

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