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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

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
Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
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Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
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Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.
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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.
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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.
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A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.
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It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
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He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.
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I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
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Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
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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.
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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
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Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?
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There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.
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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.
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Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
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They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
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The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
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I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
Frank McCourt
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Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
Frank McCourt