Colm Toibin Quotes
You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.Colm Toibin
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
M. J. Rose -
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard -
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby -
When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Nancy Gibbs -
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
Abigail Breslin -
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
Frances O'Connor -
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill -
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis -
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
Adam Cohen -
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Warren Buffett -
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
Omar Bongo -
The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
L.A. Reid -
If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
Rachel Sklar -
I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
Natalie Portman -
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
Fiona Apple -
It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
Patrick Kane
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Whenever I get negative comments on Twitter, it's always from girls - often ones who are trying to make it in the media. I don't understand why we can't put that energy into uniting and supporting each other instead.
Jameela Jamil -
I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.
Christine Sinclair -
I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.
Chellie Pingree -
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.
Colm Toibin