Colum McCann Quotes
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
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You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
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We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
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I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures - not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo's quest.
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You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
