Alice McDermott Quotes

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeNameYouFeelingHumanOut

Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.

Joe Klein

HistoryThinkThroughCommonCause

I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

Jerry Saltz

LifeBalanceHappyEnergyFeelYou

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

Anatoly Karpov

WorldBackGeographyChessMapIdea

People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.

John Lasseter

FunPeopleHaving FunImportantWant

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

Stephen Chbosky

StarsYouTelevisionNewMoreBreak

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

Rush Limbaugh

PeopleUniverseMediaGroupMatters

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Marya Mannes

GoodAgeYourselfYouthBetterYou

What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible experiences with the bad forces, but Sweden didn't. I think we use the thrillers in a different way. We never write a thriller like 'Who is the murderer?' The big question in most of our thrillers is... 'Why?'

Michael Nyqvist

WarWorldThinkGuiltBadWhy

I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

Lloyd Blankfein

TimeForwardCompromiseViewLook

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

Jay Hernandez

EarlyPlaceSayRealWhateverBeing

Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.

Jared Cohen

TechnologyPowerDayPeopleName

I am I plus my circumstances.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

LifeI AmCircumstancesPlusAm

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