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Frank McCourt Quotes

I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Community Baseball New York New Talk

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Joan Armatrading

Me Over Years Different Who Certain

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

Jerome Corsi

Said Offended Apologize Anything

I'm very grateful to Italian football for the opportunity it has given me.

Mauro Icardi

Opportunity Grateful Football Me

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

Matthew Nable

Life Love Winter Time Myself Me

My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'

John Wesley Shipp

Children Ethics Parents Go Something

Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.

Stan Kroenke

Good Time Game Think Judge You

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

Louis C. K.

People Saying Mad Through Anything

This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Myself Man Black Look Honest Threat

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

Chen Shui-bian

Path Democracy Road Say Right Over

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

Ciaran Hinds

Joy People Me Story Process Goal

I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Mother Me Husband Criticism Friends

There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.

Winston Duke

Down Stereotypes Always Gang Along