Frank McCourt's Profile
Brief about Frank McCourt: By info that we know Frank McCourt was born at 1930-08-19. And also Frank McCourt is Irish Author.
Some Frank McCourt's quotes. Goto "Frank McCourt's quotation" section for more.The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Tags: Experience, Sky, TwiceWe never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
Tags: Fails, MemoryActually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
Tags: Lonely, MotherFirst 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.
Tags: Experience, Family, LifeHe came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.
Tags: Making, Mother, WorkI 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.
Tags: Enough, Food, GoodI 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.
Tags: Church, Hell, IdeaI can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
Tags: Domestic, Life, ReadyI just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
Tags: Book, Matter, WritingI'm more interested in writing than in performing.
Tags: Interested, Performing, WritingMy childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
Tags: Actually, Here, TimeThe main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
Tags: Experience, Interested, TeacherYou feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Tags: Age, Grave, SenseAnd, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.
Tags: Might, Sex, TouchRelated topics
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