Frank McCourt Quotes
Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.
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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.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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We just couldn't stop them and they kept scoring? It was everything. We couldn't stop anything. We just didn't bring it today.
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We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.
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The world is still changing. Faster than ever. And so should the Republican Party. Or condemn itself to a smaller and smaller base of core supporters and permanent minority status.
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I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
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Our findings support many of the conclusions of the resource dependence theorists, who contend that a firm's scope for strategic change is strongly bounded by the interests of external entities (customers, in this study) who provide the resources the firm needs to survive.
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Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.
