Frank McCourt Quotes
The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.
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I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.
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Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
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I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.
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No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
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He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.
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The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.
