Colum McCann Quotes
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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.
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 -
Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
Eddie Murphy
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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.'
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.
Paracelsus -
I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.
Charles Dickens
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All things human change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
After doing 'Life After Beth,' which I think had one line that wasn't scripted, everything was scripted so that it sounds natural, and I went to such great lengths to create dialogue and to come across the way that people wouldn't sound like they were on the nose.
Jeff Baena -
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.
Anne Fadiman -
If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
Colum McCann