Frank McCourt Quotes
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I completely get the drag thing.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I’m southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, I’ll be southern dead.
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But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
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I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
