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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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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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 think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
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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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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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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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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.
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We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.
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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.
