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Frank McCourt Quotes

I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Ocean New York New Sides Both Sides

I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.

Jennifer Coolidge

Time Woman People Talking Ridiculous

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Three Things Surgery Off Four List

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Actor Cowboy Get Easier Than

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Ideas Born Hatred Need Our

It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the rules and hope that will get you a measure of stability or happiness. That's part of the affluent suburban dream: to do everything perfectly in a long-winded way, to try to fulfill all the requirements.

Happiness Hope Woman Yourself You

I definitely need clarity.

Clarity Need Definitely

Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.

Work Nature Beauty Wait Humanity

Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself.

Life Good Power Myself Me Feel Good

I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.

Truck Gym Down Go Something Behind

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.

Janice Dickinson

Lived Stuff About Writes Collins

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Eye Individual Public Public Eye

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

Me Society You Say Will Try

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