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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 19
Died: 2009
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Francis McCourt
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More quotes by Frank McCourt
They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
Frank McCourt
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
Frank McCourt
Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
Frank McCourt
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
Frank McCourt
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
Frank McCourt
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
Frank McCourt
I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Frank McCourt
I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
Frank McCourt
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
Frank McCourt
I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.
Frank McCourt
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
Frank McCourt
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
Frank McCourt
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
Frank McCourt
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
Frank McCourt
Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.
Frank McCourt
I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
Frank McCourt
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
Frank McCourt
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
Frank McCourt
The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.
Frank McCourt
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Frank McCourt
