Frank McCourt Quotes

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FatherMotherNew YorkBornNewMet

You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.

Jenifer Lewis

GoodStartYouKnowNeverProject

I really like crop tops. I like how you can dress them up or down, with jeans or a skirt and heels. I like to be showy and cute. I don't want to be in just a jacket and pants and boots.

McKayla Maroney

CuteDressBootsYouDownWant

I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects.

Sturgill Simpson

DownAlwaysPretendAnythingSit

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

HatVillainArtistBadRealHim

I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.

Troye Sivan

MeWritingBetterGetting BetterGo

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Michael Nesmith

PeopleControlInternetResources

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

Lisa Loeb

WorkMotherBalanceHardBeing

I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.

Delta Goodrem

ThinkAdviceProfessionalImportant

My confidence has been really building since my time at Espanyol.

Philippe Coutinho

ConfidenceTimeBuildingBeenReally

I am on the side of the working person across the country.

Pramila Jayapal

I AmCountryPersonSideWorkingAm

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, 'Give us some pages,' he just goes off and comes back. It's just pages, and suddenly, there's some writing on them.

Shane Black

WorkWritingDoingYouBackSee

The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.

Richard Corliss

GreatPeopleCreatingDramaRun

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