Colum McCann
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VANESSA MARCIL LEMONY SNICKET When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting t... MATT MCGORRY You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just w... AUSTIN BUTLER I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting. JANE BADLER BURT BACHARACH When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It'... TAWNI O'DELL ZIG ZIGLAR I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love an... TASHA SMITH I have grown up believing that when an individual excels at what he does, it makes him desirable. I ... RANVEER SINGH All your experiences, the places you go to, the encounters you have with people, and, of course, you... CYRILLE AIMEE LINDA RONSTADT VAN MORRISON URSUS WEHRLI MARILYN MONROE It was one of those drives where you want to milk the clock as much as you could and giving the ball... TOMMY BOWDEN One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find ... BENNY GOODMAN MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MAGGIE SMITH You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn... JUDD GREGG NORA ROBERTS BETTIE PAGE LEO BURNETT PEP GUARDIOLA ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're diffe... CASEY AFFLECK MORGAN FREEMAN OSHO MACKLEMORE HELEN MIRREN JOHN RAMPTON He's got all the pains of being lost and all the benefits of being told where to go. He wants it the... PATRICK BRYANT BARBARA KINGSOLVER ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER BILL MAHER LARINA KASE All I know is, being away from you......makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much SAMANTHA TOWLE SAMUEL GOLDWYN UTA HAGEN NELSON DEMILLE Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it'... BAZ LUHRMANN There's something about your child's child that just makes you want to spend money. From the parents... DIANE HARRIS Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn... TIBOR FISCHER does that emotional stuff really well. She's just plays it in a simple way, in a convincing way. Wit... DAVID SHORE That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion... GIANNI VERSACE DEYTH BANGER People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either beco... JACK LAYTON NORA ROBERTS STEVE MARTIN JOHN KRASINSKI DON MARQUIS DON MARQUIS Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being ... AARON CARTER KATHLEEN TURNER LINDSEY WIXSON It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personalit... JOHN MONEY There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. ... CANDICE OLSON HECTOR ELIZONDO ZENDAYA KEVIN HART RON REAGAN CRAIG GROESCHEL PHIL KLAY When it comes to getting promoted, you want to present yourself in a way that feeds into the biases ... TRAVIS BRADBERRY DAMIEN HIRST I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who scre... BOB ROSS SHANNEN DOHERTY Endow yourself with healthy self-esteem. What is the feeling tone in your life that radiates in you ... ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it make... BEAU WILLIMON Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick... DICK GREGORY JOHNNY CASH PLEASEFINDTHIS NICK HORNBY VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN ADRIENNE BAILON I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of... DON BLUTH GINNI ROMETTY LANA DEL REY ALAN ALDA BILLY CRUDUP Starbucks did this magical thing where it took a product that people didn't really care that muc... AILEEN LEE Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do... RIP TORN MARIAN KEYES ZOSIA MAMET To Barack Obama, if you believe in traditional marriage, you are a homophobe. If you believe men sho... ROBERT JEFFRESS JEAN-LUC GODARD The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places eve... PRESTON STURGES Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You ha... ISABELLE HUPPERT Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo... JEWEL ROSEANNE BARR The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and sc... ROSEANNE You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be ... DAVE OBEY
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COLUM JOYCE This was a great chance to honor both teams in what turned out to be a really successful season. BETH MCCANN We had a great tournament and we have no reason to hang our heads. We have a young team and that hur... BETH MCCANN She's doing quite well with the team. She really beefs up our defensive line. BETH MCCANN This was good practice for next weekend. BETH MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be... BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still b... BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ... BRYAN MCCANN [It is the] jobs of groups like us to make sure that doesn't happen. Anytime there is a local screen... BRYAN MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be... BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still ... BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ... BRYAN MCCANN [Devine] is going to be a great pitcher in this league someday, BRIAN MCCANN It was greatest moment I've ever had on the baseball field. Everything just felt right, and it was a... BRIAN MCCANN You never expect to hit a home run off a guy like that, ... He's the best pitcher in baseball. He's ... BRIAN MCCANN He threw the ball OK. In the second inning, he wasn't hitting his locations like he wanted to. But h... BRIAN MCCANN I was going to go up hacking, ... Pitcher on deck. Two outs. He can start throwing his dirtiest stuf... BRIAN MCCANN He's just a starting pitcher. He's got three pitches, and he can throw them all for strikes. With hi... BRIAN MCCANN I tried to hurry up the throw and it sailed on me. It's terrible. BRIAN MCCANN has calluses older than McCann. The kid was 83 days old when Clemens broke in with the Red Sox. He w... BRIAN MCCANN Class AA is where you prove you can play, where you prove you can hit consistently good pitching. Ev... BRIAN MCCANN He's got great stuff. He's got about eight pitches. I put something down and he throws whatever. He ... BRIAN MCCANN We all kind of put in that extra effort to make sure the job gets done. It's getting progressively h... BOB MCCANN Based on the new rules, Michigan probably now has the strictest mining laws in the country. BOB MCCANN Once that happened, the disputes were resolved and both parties are able to move on. BOB MCCANN The goal is to get this plan into workable shape. BOB MCCANN I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,'... RORY MCCANN In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunati... RORY MCCANN You shouldn't intervene. No citizen should feel compelled unless they see something that is exactly ... KELLY MCCANN Down there, basketball is the big thing. Some of my friends that I've known since kindergarten are s... ALEX MCCANN I didn't start playing until I was 12, but I didn't get really serious until I was in high school. ALEX MCCANN The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn&... RORY 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 His stuff he had in Milwaukee was the same stuff he had tonight. BRIAN 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 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 I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I e... RORY MCCANN I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and... RORY MCCANN I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, wh... RORY MCCANN So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of... JIM MCCANN Our mentality is that we're going to play the same if it's the seventh game of the World Series or a... BRIAN MCCANN You know, he's one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Just to get a pitch up, out over the plate,... BRIAN MCCANN We'll just have to regroup and come back next year. We're really not thinking about next year right ... BRIAN MCCANN Pressure wasn't the problem. Everyone has pressure on them at this level. He threw really well. If w... BRIAN MCCANN The ministry is doing a great job helping people. What happens when the help stops? Is the city taki... TOM MCCANN It's like, it doesn't even matter to me. I just want to play at that next level. DEE MCCANN I'm anxious. Little nervous. You know how it is. You never know until that day comes. DEE MCCANN This takes a lot of pressure off of us. Win or lose we still have the Big East title. DEE MCCANN Step by step. Just focus. DEE MCCANN They were saying they were coming in to take the Big East. I don't see that happening. DEE MCCANN I had my fingernails in his jersey and he stepped away. He's got a lot of speed and quickness, but h... DEE MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be... BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ... BRYAN MCCANN With the magnitude of the game, catching 18 innings, it didn't seem like that, ... If it was a regul... BRIAN MCCANN You couldn't write a better script, ... for any of this. BRIAN MCCANN Certainly it seems like it's better to leave business on the table rather than take on something you... JIM MCCANN I thought yesterday was made for me, but I guess I was a day out. DAVID MCCANN He broke the law in Canada and so if we are going to let him be charged he should be charged here, w... DAVID MCCANN If he gets charged in Canada that will have major legal consequences for that extradition request. DAVID MCCANN We are really strong. We're in a good position. But there is a long way to go in this race, and anyt... DAVID MCCANN [They can be used to react quickly to reports about Taliban and al Qaeda forces in the area, said J.... KELLY MCCANN We're just frustrated because we were told one thing and that turned out not to be the case, JACK MCCANN The county judge (Dale Haas) then told me to go ahead and if nothing worked the county would pick up... JACK MCCANN I was told to talk with the Red Cross, ... I talked with Mark (Massey) with the Red Cross and he sai... JACK MCCANN I was told they would need at least one officer at the shelter 24-7, ... I was told the state (Depar... JACK MCCANN Two weeks ago, an employee with the governor's office called me at my office and said several evacue... JACK MCCANN I didn't murder him, he was already dead when I cut his throat. JACK MCCANN I want to prepare her that, if he's coming back here, there are going to be some problems -- to what... JACK MCCANN Whether anybody agrees with it or not, he has served his sentence, JACK MCCANN I want to prepare her that, if he's coming back here, there are going to be some problems ? to what ... JACK MCCANN It's extraordinarily difficult. It forces challengers to be extremely creative or have deep pockets ... JAMES MCCANN It's vitally important that we succeed and continue to raise money, JAMES MCCANN A lot of different things go into the mix when determining whether or not Roberts is confirmed. The ... JAMES MCCANN The senators will want to ask about views on presidential powers, women's rights and minorities, bec... JAMES MCCANN has a problem with that. JAMES MCCANN God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down... MARIA MCCANN We try to look at what events may occur that will involve Army forces. LYNNE MCCANN This is a larger effort within the Defense Department for language studies and cultural awareness. T... LYNNE MCCANN Our cemeteries are very unique and I know when people come to New Orleans, tourists and all, they lo... LUCY MCCANN There are so many factors driving employers away from retiree health benefits ? ... escalating healt... LAURIE MCCANN The seniors all had a great season, it was an awesome year. Next year we will have high expectations... LAMONT MCCANN It was a really tough tournament. We did well. I was proud of their day, we got a lot accomplished a... LAMONT MCCANN We really didn't know what we had with Shane until after the Sierra Nevada Classic. Some schools hav... LAMONT MCCANN People are a lot more aware that there is treatment for sleep disorders. They are also less willing ... KATHLEEN MCCANN With the growth of sleep centers, a lot are fly-by-night. They're not equipped to provide a proper e... KATHLEEN MCCANN I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with,the... RORY MCCANN
Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger... 
Josephine caught my eye and gave me a signal we'd used for years to indicate that one of us had to l... 
A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. 
It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there�... 
Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible f... 
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau... 
One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense ... 
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy... 
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... 
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself,... 
When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses,... 
Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love. 
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing b... 
All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't und... 
It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i... 
And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places yo... 
Unconcious makes you interested in other--things, people, but it is always the others. Unconciousnes... 
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a swe... 
Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run awa... 
While having friends shouldn't be the main reason why you love your job, it definitely makes the... 
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. 
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps yo... 
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved ... 
Do you want to know the surefire way to stay anxious? Dont do the thing that makes you nervous! 
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it. 
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession... 
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are ... 
The Revenge and the Vengeance makes you to go forward and forward to do your work... This which was ... 
L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I t... 
The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want ... 
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into 
You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, y... 
You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very dif... 
I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all i... 
Find something that makes you happy and go for it. 
No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that make... 
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos float... 
Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. 
I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical rea... 
I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a soci... 
Once you have a good relationship with Aaron, he seems to want to work with you over and over again.... 
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people li... 
Booze makes you stupid and like it. It makes you fall around and not care. And eventually, stupid is... 
People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ... 
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What ... 
If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what y... 
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of co... 
I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about w... 
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. 
One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People... 
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes ... 
The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is jus... 
You don't make a movie, the movie makes you. 
The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and sc... 
We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar s... 
I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it. 
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispo...