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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Take the hand you’re dealt and then finesse it.
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There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Because one of the main jobs of a CEO is to set the vision and strategy for the company, I'm a big believer in making one of the founders the default CEO.
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Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
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If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
