Colum McCann Quotes
Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew. There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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I look like that in the morning: my hair's all greasy - it's not, 'Hey, look at the babe of the band!' I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties... it's very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.
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I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.
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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.
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Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew. There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.
