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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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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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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I remember the first thing I ever tried was the 'eating food for your blood type' diet. It didn't work for me. It left me fatigued and constantly tired.
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There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.
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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
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In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
