Malachy McCourt Quotes
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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The world wants to like America.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
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I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.
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If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
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The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.
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His mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
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Love and kindness go hand in hand.
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Sometimes it's as much about the willingness to take the journey as it is about the journey itself. You've got to take the risk. Sometimes you even have fight for your right to fail.
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
