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.Colum McCann
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
Imtiaz Ali -
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.
Nancy Pelosi -
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
Sally Ride -
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer -
I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
Idina Menzel -
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.
Idris Elba
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
Patrick Wilson -
I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
Natalie Maines -
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
R. Kelly -
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice -
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Manuel Puig -
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.
Parker Stevenson
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson -
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.
Katee Sackhoff -
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.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
P. T. Barnum -
Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
Ted Cruz
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I'm a huge art buff.
Jason Momoa -
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
Abraham Lincoln -
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.
Pauley Perrette -
The U.S. is a mere pup tent of a civilization. We’ve got two hundred years of stupidity behind us and we think we’re right up there with everyone else who’s been doing it for thousands of years.
Frank Zappa -
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.
Colum McCann