Frank McCourt Quotes
For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
Park Shin-hye -
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
Jack Schwartz -
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau -
I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso -
I believe that everything has a shelf life.
Mahershala Ali
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot -
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
Ted Williams -
Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
D. B. Weiss -
Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.
Daniel Breaker -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland -
I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
Candice Accola
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Napoleon Hill -
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
J. B. Pritzker -
In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
Carles Puigdemont -
It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.
Donna Brazile -
One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
Brad Falchuk -
Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.
David Blunkett -
I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
Caity Lotz -
For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.
Frank McCourt