Frank McCourt Quotes
I like the lemon meringue pie but I don't like the way Americans leave out the 'r' at the end of a word.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
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If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
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Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.
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During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways – to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.
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I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.
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I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.
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I'm not too good at being fake or being somebody else.
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'Protests are a part of our democratic heritage and our democratic privilege ... US and British efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq are finally getting those countries to the place that actually people might have the same privilege of protest'. The Guardian, 2003-11-15
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I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts.
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I like the lemon meringue pie but I don't like the way Americans leave out the 'r' at the end of a word.
