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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there. — Alice McDermott

Thousands more were being born today, being conceived - women with their knees raised all over the world. Mrs. — Alice McDermott

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group. — Brian McDermott

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher. — Dylan McDermott

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans. — Dylan McDermott

I said might. But that's a pretty small might. Tiny. — Andy McDermott

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me. — Alice McDermott

And then I saw him waving to us from behind the sky's reflection. — Alice McDermott

You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you. — Bill McDermott

And then George approaching, his hand stuck to his hat and the hat bent into the onslaught. She — Alice McDermott

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere. — Dylan McDermott

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him. — Dylan McDermott

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures. — Alice McDermott

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me. — Alice McDermott

This is not my fault! Any ideas?" "You don't have a white flag, do you? — Andy McDermott

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile. — Alice McDermott

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers! — Alice McDermott

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year. — Dylan McDermott

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive. — Dylan McDermott

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world. — Alice McDermott

You can make people do anything if they're afraid. — Jim McDermott

itself, had emerged from that shadow. — Alice McDermott

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual. — Alice McDermott

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better. — Alice McDermott

He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life. — Alice McDermott

Mr. Persichetti was a night nurse at the state hospital, inspired — Alice McDermott

I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets. — Alice McDermott

Throughout the typing pool all the girls began to do the same. — Alice McDermott

Jake. From Philadelphia." Then he shook everybody's hand, like he was joining a poker game. Another Jacob. Michael turned to his brother whose eyes — Alice McDermott

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

There is something ineluctably male about coalitional aggression - men bonding with men to engage in aggression against other men, — Rose McDermott

For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again be loneliness in life. — Alice McDermott

When have I rebelled?"
"When have you ever obeyed? — Shannon McDermott

Her husband was asleep beside her. She could — Alice McDermott

It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is. — Alice McDermott

We are surrounded by story. — Alice McDermott

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does. — Brian McDermott

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment. — Dylan McDermott

Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need. — Andrew McDermott

Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician. — Bill Dedman

If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker. — Mike McDermott

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them. — Dylan McDermott

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. — Brian McDermott

You saying I'm getting old?" Eddie asked, grinning. "It happens to us all, in the end. If we're lucky. — Andy McDermott

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

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase. — Alice McDermott

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it. — Jim McDermott

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period. — Jim McDermott

I learned that every tree fights for sunlight in the canopy, but this happens so slowly that the combat looks like peace. — J.M. McDermott

Who can know the heart of a man? — Alice McDermott

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change. — Dylan McDermott

The day and time itself: late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair? — Alice McDermott

I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there. — Alice McDermott

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television. — Dylan McDermott

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies. — Dylan McDermott

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise. — Alice McDermott

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again. — Dylan McDermott

As if only he and the blind man could see what the rest of them could not. — Alice McDermott

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later. — Alice McDermott

Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life. — Michael Harmon

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned. — Alice McDermott

It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money, — Mike McDermott

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it. — Dylan McDermott

He was pale as salt. Although — Alice McDermott

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am. — Brian McDermott

It was not the future they'd been objecting to, but the loss of the past. As if it was his fault that you could now have one without the other — Alice McDermott

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. — Alice McDermott

What we have here is a bunch of junior-varsity players trying to get on the varsity team. — Matt Leatherwood Jr.

I have not won far more awards than I have won. — Alice McDermott

If something is very important to you, you will always find a way to do it — Andy McDermott

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work. — Alice McDermott

They were the truth, so far as I can see."
"But you cannot see very far, and what you do see you do not understand. You do not know the truth. — Shannon McDermott

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories. — Alice McDermott

The wind," Mary said again. "It was making everyone tear up. — Alice McDermott

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home. — Charlie McDermott

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her ... — Alice McDermott

Ward held up his hands. "I'm not saying I think you're — R.E. McDermott

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype. — Alice McDermott

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

My goal is to never quit. — Andrew McDermott

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past. — Alice McDermott

My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well. — Alice McDermott

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person. — Alice McDermott

Faced with a choice of stepping up or stepping it down, we are going to step it down. — Bill McDermott

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. — Alice McDermott

A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility. — Alice McDermott

You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once. — Mike McDermott

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything. — Alice McDermott

He said I was trapped. He had trapped me. I told him to carefully consider what trapped animals do when they do not wish to be trapped. — J.M. McDermott

You'll need an awful lot of pixie dust to move 2.5 mil in forty-eight hours, Better let Tinker Bell know you'll need backup. — Matt Leatherwood Jr.

I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in. — Alice McDermott

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience. — Alice McDermott

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood. — Dylan McDermott

Football is all I know. — Brian McDermott

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. — Alice McDermott

It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day ... — Andrew McDermott

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. — Jim McDermott

I was one of those kids who always wrote. — Alice McDermott

We shared the same vision. — Dylan McDermott

when law is isolated and exalted into an independent system of religion, it becomes demonic. — Gerald R. McDermott