Colum McCann Quotes
Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.
Colum McCann
Quotes to Explore
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
Wanda Sykes
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
Wangari Maathai
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
Frances Conroy
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Ted Rall
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
Jackson Browne
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
Nathan Lane
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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
Kate Brown
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
Laura Mennell
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
Idris Elba
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
Natascha McElhone
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
Dane Cook
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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.
Tammy Duckworth
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Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.
Walt Mossberg
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
Waris Ahluwalia
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It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Daisy Berkowitz
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes
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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
Gary Zukav
