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.Colm Toibin
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
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.
Imogen Heap -
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.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
Carlene Carter -
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.
Octavia Spencer
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul -
I have nothing to hide.
Adam Lambert -
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
Oliver Tambo -
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
Wendell Mayes -
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.
Felicity Jones -
I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono
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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?
Famke Janssen -
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
Abraham Maslow -
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
Larisa Oleynik -
I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
Vijay Mallya -
I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
Sam Altman -
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
Rachel Cusk
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I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.
Fredric March -
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass -
I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
R. A. Salvatore -
Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.
Marianne Williamson -
Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
Gene Tunney -
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.
Colm Toibin