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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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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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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I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.
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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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You mirror what the world mirrors to you.
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A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
