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.
Vernon Howard -
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.
Larry David -
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
Karin Slaughter -
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Jack Steinberger -
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.
Orson Scott Card -
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Eddie Murphy -
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.'
Olivia Wilde -
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.
Naomi Campbell -
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.
Jack Ma -
The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
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.
Patricia Heaton
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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.
Natalie Cole -
There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. Salinger -
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.
Taylor Lautner -
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
Lin-Manuel Miranda -
A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
Paul Watzlawick -
I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
Maynard Webb -
If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
Colum McCann