Colm Toibin Quotes
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.
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Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
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The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there - it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
