Colum McCann Quotes
You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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I love cycling.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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Writers are so important.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them
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I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
