Colum McCann Quotes
Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.
Colum McCann
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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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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher
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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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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
Naveen Jain
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I like all kinds of music. On my playlist at the minute is Professor Green, Tinie Tempah, Maroon 5, Stereophonics, Jay-Z, Drake, and lots more. I always listen to music when I'm in the gym; it helps me to get pumped up.
Kyle Edmund
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I told a big investor in The New Yorker - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`Bill Shawn pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.
Nat Hentoff
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I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.
Bernard Hopkins
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Zadie Smith
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Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.
Colum McCann
