Frank McCourt Quotes
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
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I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Walk up and down the stairs ten times a day. Do an hour's walking. Release toxins just so that you feel happy. Drink a lot of water; sleep on time.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and he did a special Polaroid for me, so I consider it a piece of art.
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Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Whether naïve on my part or not, it seemed worth taking the time to try to convince others that their lives possessed beauty and meaning worth preserving and honoring.
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We are not going to continue until we hear the fucking roof rattle.
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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
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Tax crimes should be investigated by the tax bureau, not through secret police detention.
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The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.
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Sometimes '24' can seem a little grand. Sometimes these things can seem a little outlandish.
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I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.
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I'm not in Wall Street for my health.
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There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.
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I never really fit in anywhere.
