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Frank McCourt

"He 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."

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"He 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."

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Akshay Vasu

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

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Akshay Vasu

"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

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Akshay Vasu

"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."

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Akshay Vasu

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

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Akshay Vasu

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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Akshay Vasu

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

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Akshay Vasu

"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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Akshay Vasu

"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

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Akshay Vasu

"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

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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."

Food

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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."

Creativity

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Frank McCourt
"I'm more interested in writing than in performing."

Writing

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

Experience

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Frank McCourt
"He 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."

Work

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Frank McCourt
"And, 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."

Sex

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Frank McCourt
"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."

Work

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Frank McCourt
"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."

Christian

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Frank McCourt
"Actually, 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."

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Frank McCourt
"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow."

Happiness

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