Malachy McCourt Quotes
I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
Malachy McCourt
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
Natasha Trethewey
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In Germany I am not so famous.
Hans Berger
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
Mara Wilson
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
La'Porsha Renae
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
Candice Olson
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
Maika Monroe
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
V. E. Schwab
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
Edmund White
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In New York, they kind of rode with me from day one: they understand who I am.
William Michael Griffin Jr.
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The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.
David Elkind
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I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
Malachy McCourt
