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Alice McDermott Quotes

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Reading Play Belief Matters

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

Father Fight Doing Chair Play Way

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

Time Memory Me Start Universe Sand

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

House White Development Military

I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.

Merce Cunningham

Beginning Know Done Class More Same

My wife would like to live in Spain; I'd like to live in Italy.

Live Wife Spain Would Italy Like

China is just so different from the rest of the world.

Travis Kalanick

World Rest China Different Just

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Life You Need Desperation Either

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Education Best Information Person

I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

Career I Can Kind More Point Get

Fashion hasn't changed enough yet. There's too much a stereotype of beauty.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Beauty Fashion Enough Too Much Much

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.

Success Hands Heritage British

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

Girl Book Mystery Early Street Hand

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