Frank McCourt Quotes
Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.
Frank McCourt
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
K. Flay
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
Aaron Diehl
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
Brown Campbell
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
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I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
Barney Frank
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I came from nothing; but from whereCome these undying thoughts I bear?
Alice Meynell
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Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: 'Is there no speed limit in this mad city?''Oh, yes, monsieur,' she answered sweetly over her shoulder, 'but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.'
Alexander Woollcott
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Ambition is the death of thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
Charles Dickens
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When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.
Margaret Thatcher
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Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
Matt Bomer
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I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.
Geoff Davis
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Samuel Pepys
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I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.
Jim Gaffigan
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I would say that the lens is a manipulation of an image. To me the photogram is a non-manipulation of the object and the interaction of the object with light and the direct recording of that. To me that’s pure photographic imagery. As soon as you have a lens, you’re reinterpreting the outside world.
Adam Fuss
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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.
Oscar Wilde
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Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.
Frank McCourt
