I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.


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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 think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispo...
COLUM MCCANN
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at a...
COLUM MCCANN
When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going h...
COLUM MCCANN
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and...
COLUM MCCANN
You shouldn't intervene. No citizen should feel compelled unless they see something that is exactly ...
KELLY MCCANN
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I d...
COLUM 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 world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
COLUM MCCANN
He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve t...
COLUM MCCANN
In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, lit...
COLUM MCCANN
I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...
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