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Frank McCourt Quotes

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You Pictures Know See Lived Houses

I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.

Time Singing Think Out Pretty Much

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Freedom Great Struggle Communism

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Loneliness Day Together World Small

A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it's all digital and at a distance. There's this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there's been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.

Time Together Joy People Face Think

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Me Sides Up Locked Up Different

When self-doubt creeps in, don't ignore it - address it. Respond to harsh self-criticism with something more compassionate. Talk to yourself like a trusted friend and refuse to believe your unrealistic, negative inner monologue.

Friend Yourself Believe Negative

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

Clothes Not Interested Interested

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

Live People Want Understand Way Own

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

Me Process Trying Result Done Never

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Joshua Waitzkin

Business Mistakes World You Lose

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

Great Me You Edgy More Out

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

Work Decision Government Key Because

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