Frank McCourt Quotes
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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I know that one's visibility is very high on television, even with an unsuccessful show! With a successful role, it's even higher.
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The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
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I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.
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I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
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Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
