Frank McCourt Quotes
A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
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When Henry Ford said, 'The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black,' he was not joking.
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I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.
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Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.
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Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.
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A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
