Frank McCourt Quotes

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

Frank McCourt

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• Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

  

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

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• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  

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• Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

  

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• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
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• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

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• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

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• 'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

  

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• I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

  

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• I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
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• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
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• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
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• I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

  

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• I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

  

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• I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

  

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• Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

  

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• I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
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• Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

  

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• Stacy Schiff. 'The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village', The New Yorker, September 7, 2015, pp. 46-55.

  

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• I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Life