Malachy McCourt Quotes
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
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Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
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Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not.
