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's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.
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When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?
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In one single moment your whole life can turn around.
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I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.
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...it was clear to everyone at the table who had any experience with men and alcohol—especially men who had won international literary prizes—that he was not going to stop talking at any point in the meal.
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If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
