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Frank McCourt Quotes

I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Thought Be Different America Would

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Jerry Della Femina

Fun Advertising Believe Clothes You

We can all remember a time when someone encouraged us and made a difference in our lives. It may be just a moment, but this encouragement could last a lifetime.

Time Moment Someone Remember May Us

At this point, I feel fairly comfortable in terms of performance. I think having a sketch background actually helps a lot. Because my background is acting, and stand-up, in a lot of ways, is acting.

Michael Ian Black

Performance Think Feel Acting Sketch

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

College Wealth Harvard Square Away

Mental strength is not the same as mental health. Just like someone with diabetes could still be physically strong, someone with depression can still be mentally strong. Many people with mental health issues are incredibly mentally strong. Anyone can make choices to build mental strength, regardless of whether they have a mental health issue.

Strength Health Depression People

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

Marriage Death Waiting Room Viewed

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

Life Love Sad Children Blessed Rest

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

Jonathan Tropper

Child Book Own Like Your Performing

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

Clothes Go Page Nice Never Sales

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

Failure Quality Think Interesting

I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.

Christopher Nolan

Me Alien Kid Always Extraordinary

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.

Work Fun You Connected Oil Everyone

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