Frank McCourt Quotes
There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
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These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.
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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.
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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
