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Colum McCann Quotes

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: February 28, 1965

Topics

Beautiful World Believe Place

I think 'work' is anything I'm doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word 'work' for me - I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in.

Jessica Jackley

Work Day Purpose Me Wake Up Believe

'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.

Life Night My Life Afternoon Knee

I'm a genetic optimist.

Optimist Genetic

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Stanley Hauerwas

Mother Children Child Looking She

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

Family Police Me Think Hats Know

There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It's a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over and over again, or you choose to ignore them.

Time Man Fog Wind Forward Choose

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Beauty Woman Mind Prison Body Cage

Here's the thing. You can't get ten thousand hours of skiing. You spend so much time on the chairlift. My coach did a calculation of how many hours I've been on snow. We'd been overestimating. I think we came up with something like eleven total hours of skiing on snow a year. It's, like, seven minutes a day.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Snow Time Day Skiing Think Year

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

Baseball Musicians Want Players

The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when you're well-meaning as a parent or a shopper for yourself, you can't help but be pulled toward the highly processed food.

Food Walk Yourself Government Help

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

People Impact Media Become Who Read

I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.

Dick Van Patten

Person More Missing Been Almost Met

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