"Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out."

-- Monica Lewinsky

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“Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.”
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.”
“We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.”
“When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti Ë›ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys”
“My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.”
“I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.”
“I don't feel competition at all. I just feel like I want to be the best. In everything that Michael (Jackson) did, he was the best. When he was dancing, when he was singing, he always wanted to be the best, and that's me... He's the guideline.”
“Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.”

Source : Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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