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Frank McCourt Quotes

We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Shoes People Bicycle Repair

When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is odd, because I was a full-grown woman, and my hair was short and blond. Still, sitting on the black leather sofa in his chambers, I remember shrinking.

Woman Child Hair Small Black Short

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

John Lloyd Young

Heart Tough Think You Actor Big

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

Europe Euro Fails

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

Truth Myself Eye Think Language

When I was dancing, I felt in control and happy. I'm a Virgo, so I really like to be in control.

Happy Control Dancing Like Really

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

Woman Man Values Body Same Female

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

Work Learning Great Time Me Better

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Life Live Yourself Writing Care You

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

Light People Me Think Die Movies

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Thought Process Capture Stream

This has been the best thing that ever happened to me.

Best Me Been Happened Ever Thing

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

Thomas S. Monson

Focus Joy Finding Find Done More

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