Frank McCourt Quotes
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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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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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I'm definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we'll all get our nails done or have waxes.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
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If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
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The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
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I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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It was not enough that India should get Swaraj. It was more important in whose hands the Swaraj would be.
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Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.
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I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.
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I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.
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Dead is the travel of all our travels.
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In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
