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If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Beside Certain Ever Fireman Ghost Holy Holy Ghost Make Should Sitting Visited You

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We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Away Body Boston Get Heard Me Moving Over Plane Pulitzer Right Right Away Stay Supposed Wanted Wants Were Won You Your Your Body

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They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Fun Incorrect Lot Me North Politically Politically Incorrect Should Tell

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It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Award Deal First Getting Hitting Last Like List Movie New New Yorker Now Published Pulitzer Series Summer Then Waves Yorker You

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When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Agent Been Childhood Doing Editor First He His Recovery Said See Up Well Years You

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Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Always Balanced Balanced Diet Bread Diet Fat Got Had Liquid More Need Nobody Saying Simple Solid Tea You

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When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Good Kid Like Nothing Pretty Pretty Good Race Runner Winning

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When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: America Bigger Came Dreamed Dreams I Came

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I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Could Exalted Imagine Loved Most Profession Reading Teaching Writing

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I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.

~Frank Mccourt

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: August 19th, 1930

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