Colm Toibin Quotes
I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
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I've been working hard on strength and conditioning. When you do a good job and take care of your body, at the end of the season you feel strong.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Government research has to go through peer review.
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I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
