Frank McCourt Quotes
We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler -
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James -
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. Wilson -
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins -
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Maggie Gallagher -
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes -
I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
Kate Winslet
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.
Fleur East -
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice Leconte -
When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
Randy Owen -
Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
Daley Thompson
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It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.
Victoria Osteen -
Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
Aamir Khan -
The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.
Barack Obama -
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
Matt Blunt -
We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.
Frank McCourt