Frank McCourt Quotes
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.
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I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
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If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
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Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.
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Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.
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The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.
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I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.
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St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
