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Frank McCourt Quotes

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Mother Think View Brooklyn Way

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

John Buchanan Robinson

Money Simple Price Reason Buy May

Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.

John Dickerson

Facts House White White House Make

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

Andrew Scott

Story You Forget Want Actor Hot

The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Research Start Reading Doing Phone

As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

Matthew Pearl

History Believe Pressure You New

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

John Sladek

Time Food Hate Mind Writing Reading

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

Simon McBurney

People Me Theatre Nobody Assume Get

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

Yourself You Others First Lead

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

Louis Armstrong

Time First Time First Over Goose

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

Jorge M. Perez

Father Mother Art Culture Politics

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

Douglas Coupland

Day Blue Writing Lonely True Talk

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

Clive Thompson

Creative People Thinking Powerful Us