Frank McCourt Quotes
There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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We should all love animals.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
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For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
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Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
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Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
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There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
