Colm Toibin Quotes
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Colm Toibin
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
D. H. Lawrence
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
Nargis Fakhri
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
Natalie Dormer
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Find me someone who is Nigerian who is always on time for things that aren't work-related, and I will find you a Tyrese quote that makes perfect sense. They might exist, but they sure are rare.
Luvvie Ajayi
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For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
Amber Heard
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My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
Elaine Stritch
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Food trends don't just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elemental as your daily cup of coffee. The way you have that coffee now is probably very different from the way you had it ten years ago, and it'll probably be very different in ten years. That has a huge impact, culturally and economically.
David Sax
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Colm Toibin