Frank McCourt Quotes

On the last day of my teaching career, I was sitting in my apartment, having a glass of wine, thinking I'm glad I did it, that I had been somehow useful, that I had learned something.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009

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People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Joanna Lumley

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CNN is not a television network that has a website. CNN is a full-fledged media company.

Jeff Zucker

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Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.

Andy Mineo

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One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.

Tommy Hilfiger

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Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

Tommy Rettig

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Stage performing is a dying art form.

Ronnie Spector

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My father ruined me for men. Not many can live up to him.

Roisin Murphy

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The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

Antoni Gaudi

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It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.

Nicola Sturgeon

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After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.

Marshall Curry

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Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

Leon Russell

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