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Frank McCourt Quotes

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Television Nothing Way Top Radio

There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely different financially. But theatre is the only place where you get to actually be the character, and nobody is going to come around and change it later.

Change Character Theatre Doing You

Government officials and citizens care about many causes - and they all require resources. For example, I am personally passionate about ending the human trafficking that still occurs within our borders.

Government I Am Ending Care Borders

There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.

People Democracy Negative Voice Will

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.

Time Writing World I Can Hard Zen

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

Cooking Remember You Choice Personal

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Broken Ethics Fix Need System Most

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

Man Wise Wise Man Never Anything He

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Women Live Society Start Chance See

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

Change People Think Literature Class

It's not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can't catch the ball. It's that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.

People Say Right People Say Drops

Even in Hollywood, there are personal descents that evoke only sad shakes of the head, especially where there's sheer, unassailable talent in the mix.

Sad Talent Hollywood Personal Head

I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.

Music Past People Song Think Loved

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