Colm Toibin Quotes
You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I have nothing to hide.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
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I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.
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It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.
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He wos wery good to me, he wos!
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
