Malachy McCourt Quotes
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
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The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.
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Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
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I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
