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COLUM MCCANN I see a lot of loyalty and commitment. In our businesses we have very little voluntary turnover.
CHERYL MCCANN We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really ...
JIM MCCANN ...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because ot...
COLUM MCCANN I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.
COLUM MCCANN No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched ...
COLUM MCCANN I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. T...
COLUM MCCANN Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
COLUM MCCANN One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a w...
COLUM MCCANN I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
COLUM MCCANN What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find
in the grime of the everyda...
COLUM MCCANN With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
COLUM MCCANN Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He
went where He was supposed t...
COLUM MCCANN ...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
COLUM MCCANN There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it on...
COLUM MCCANN Nobody falls halfway
COLUM MCCANN People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows exce...
COLUM MCCANN Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.
COLUM MCCANN I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. ...
COLUM MCCANN She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and withi...
COLUM MCCANN The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
COLUM MCCANN There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the s...
COLUM MCCANN She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth griev...
COLUM MCCANN The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and...
COLUM MCCANN I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
COLUM MCCANN Good days, they come around the oddest corners.
COLUM MCCANN Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
COLUM MCCANN People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best da...
COLUM MCCANN Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ...
COLUM MCCANN The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
COLUM MCCANN Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there...
COLUM MCCANN His stuff he had in Milwaukee was the same stuff he had tonight.
BRIAN MCCANN Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the da...
COLUM MCCANN We see people coming in who want the flexibility. They want to work a couple of days a week. It's ju...
CHERYL MCCANN There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
COLUM MCCANN I am pleased, I was a bit annoyed yesterday as I would have caught the breakaways for sure,
DAVID MCCANN People actually have come in to see Carol.
CHERYL MCCANN We're always looking to advance as many as we can. We're happy with nine, I feel bad for Sammy (Mart...
KEVIN MCCANN