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 quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.
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And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.
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I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.
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If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
