Frank McCourt Quotes

It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WavesAwardYouSummerNewNow

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Jerry Seinfeld

LifeLiveMeMovingDownMovement

I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist.

Jessica Simpson

ArtistKindPublicityType

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

Michael Fassbender

GoodMyselfEnoughGoalActingSay

The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.

Stephen Kinzer

LifeTrainingBirdsYoungCapture

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Simon Cowell

GoodPeopleBeing DifferentRules

I'm not one of those artists that can go away for six months and tour America and have 20 producers back in London or L.A. doing everything for me and I just come home and sing on it. It would be really useful, in terms of speed, to work like that. I just wouldn't find it creatively satisfying. I have to have my hand on the remote control.

Shura

WorkHomeMeControlAmericaDoing

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

Tom Perez

OpportunityInequalityCountryClass

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Tom T. Hall

MeCareerDeadHerInterviewing

The 'Reno' movie is very solid. 'Balls of Fury' I'm pretty disappointed in - I blame myself. People hate both of those movies equally.

Robert Ben Garant

MyselfHatePeopleBlameMovies

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Robert Carlyle

HeartExperienceMindPerformanceUp

Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back.

Juan Gabriel

TimeBackNeverLoversComeStyles

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.

Diane Warren

GoodTalentThinkThoughtFeelYou

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