Alice McDermott Quotes

All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThoughtFriendsGrandparentsAccents

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

Jennifer Ellison

GodShoesMeDoingNewThree

The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set of companies as New York or Cleveland because the region has a different set of strengths and defining institutions.

Andrew Yang

New YorkProblemsYouNewSameSee

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

John McGahern

LiveWorldAgainOncePrivateUntil

I make it my business to be around people that don't look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them.

Andy Mineo

BusinessPeopleMeThinkLearnLook

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

Amy Grant

ExperiencePeopleThinkPersonal

When I was a kid, dealing with trying to discover myself, I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't have any Internet and didn't have any friends. You felt very alone and very frightened.

Rob Halford

AloneMyselfInternetFriendsYou

Youngsters taking up boxing will get a lot of encouragement to do something for the country, seeing my laurels.

Mary Kom

EncouragementSeeingCountryBoxing

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.

Joyce Giraud

LifeEatingMy LifeNeverDisorder

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Dmitri Mendeleev

WorkPeaceCalmYouLookFind

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Placido Domingo

HealthVoiceBadPersonalEmotional

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

NatureGoodResultOthersLittle

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

Thomas Dolby

MusicFindMy OwnStartingOutOwn

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