Alice McDermott Quotes

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FaithThinkChurchFeelingWrite

I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.

Jodi Balfour

TimeMyselfI AmAmEmbarrass

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

Joel Grey

LoveCrazyChanceSurprisesAbout

I always have my passport on me, as well as two currencies.

Jennifer Morrison

MeTwoAlwaysPassportWell

Real silencing occurs when a conservative tries to speak at a liberal university like Berkeley, and the party of anger and violence acts on their hatred when a police department says we can't protect a Republican speaker.

Jeanine Pirro

PoliceAngerSpeakViolenceParty

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

John Ridley

StupidSmilingYouI CanJazzWill

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

LiveWorldPrettyFrantic

Everyone has to be their own critic.

Diego Costa

EveryoneOwnCritic

I think if we did 'Stargate' right, the fans would like it, and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they'll reject it. As they should.

Dean Devlin

GoodThinkRightUpFansSomething

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Christopher Meloni

MotherChildrenDayDoctorThree

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Chuck Daly

TeamImportantRightSuccessfulGet

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

Ashley Madekwe

DeathPeopleMeYouWishesSee

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Susie Orbach

LiveKitchenTreatWishPlaceNeed

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