Frank McCourt Quotes
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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I never left doo wop.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
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Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what's coming next and don't assume they've got the winning formula forever.
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My voice has a lot of character and kind of doesn't sound like a lot of people's.
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People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe.
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Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring.
