Alice McDermott Quotes

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RunRiskMemoirManyDrawn

I love my pets, and I'm a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.

Amy Jackson

NatureLoveAnimalEnjoyBigPets

I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.

Stephen Collins

ExperienceMeChanceParentLaugh

I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.

Stephen Hough

New YorkMusiciansPlaceNewSide

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

ManMeBelieveProudHimGuy

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

NatureVoiceBornEarthOthersAir

I've never been a Hollywood dropout.

Tom Shadyac

HollywoodNeverBeen

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Michael Shnayerson

ChildrenWorldYouPlaceHandTaxes

Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.

Jose Andres

BestCookingSimpleWayEveryday

When I was a kid on the playground, fights were about who got to play Han Solo. He's just one of the best characters ever created.

Christopher Miller

BestPlayPlaygroundKidSoloJust

I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do it and serve a conversation that I feel is necessary culturally. The fact that I get to bring those two passions together is amazing to me - that I get to use my art in order to inform my activism and vice versa!

Wilson Cruz

LoveArtGratefulTogetherAmazing

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

Philip Green

I AmBraveViewEducatedTakeAm

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

GovernmentPeopleRestBill Of Rights

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Alice McDermott