Colum McCann Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to complain. I am grateful and happy to be alive, and still be able to continue with my work, if only just. My work seems to me more important than ever.
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The two important variables for the policy formulation are projected inflation and the output gap. There is no clear hidebound mathematics that we must give 'X' weight to inflation and 'Y' weight to growth and form the associated policy.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
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If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
