Malachy McCourt Quotes
Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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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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I was a really big kid.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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India is my kid sister.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
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I never read comic books as a kid.
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Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.
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Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.
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Slim Shady: Hotter then a set of twin babies In a Mercedes Benz, with the windows up When the temp goes up to the mid 80's.
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I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.
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Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
