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Frank McCourt Quotes

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Stars People Enough Want Generals

The approach to 'Star Wars' was more complicated than usual merely by the nature of its expansiveness.

Nature Complicated More Star Than

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

Song Feel Doing Will Line Emotional

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.

Matthew Morrison

Way More Than Jobs Had Rejections

It's crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

Crazy Action You Fast Out Shape

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

Love Faith People Shopping Unique

Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I am interested in.

Responsibility I Am Revolution Social

It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece of storytelling that also happened to explode the myth of American affluence.

People American Poor Storytelling

Among my favorite half-dozen topics is the field of Victorian female explorers, the intrepid women who packed up their parasols and petticoats and roamed the world in search of adventure. Some were scientists, some artists, some unabashed curiosity-seekers who simply went out to see what they could see.

Deanna Raybourn

Women Adventure World Search See Up

As a stand-up, as a storyteller, as an improviser, I've done thousands of shows. They allow me to work out new material that might turn into something later. They let me keep my muscles sharp for when the rent-paying gigs do come along. They keep me sane.

Work Me New Done Turn Out

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.

Brian K. Vaughan

Time Writing World Easy Dream Own

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.

Chrystia Freeland

Business Government Facts Political

The majority of the DC and Marvel comic lines are white male characters, and the minute you make Thor a woman or Captain America a black guy, the Internet is filled with hateful comments and people saying, 'That's not what Captain America is supposed to look like.'

Woman People Saying Black Internet

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