Alice McDermott Quotes

I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMyselfForwardThinkMoments

I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleWritingBookPressureYouUs

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

Joey King

ChristianJewishPartMostly

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Melanie Fiona

MusicArtistSheEverythingIndustry

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

Rosie Perez

FunnyStepMeFriendsCircleQuiet

If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts.

Michael O'Brien

LifeWorkGoodHopeCultureFruit

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

Michel Patini

GoodTimeBestFootballThinkYear

Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer's Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me.

Lisa Lutz

MoneyMePlanFirstYearsPaycheck

I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.

Joshua Ostrander

FamilyMeCoolHandUpDestroyed

There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.

Jose Manuel Barroso

BadBecomeMorePoliticiansSense

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Jonathan Ive

UnderstandAbilityMagicalSomething

All of my friends on the street we're Jewish. I went to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs. I even learned a little Hebrew.

Ato Essandoh

FriendsStreetJewishBarLittle

I envy the dead.

William Mulholland

EnvyDead

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