Colm Toibin Quotes
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.
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Definitely it was quite fun. When it?s like that, the bike?s working, the bike has got grip, and the lap comes together, it?s a lot of fun to ride the bike like that. Really enjoyed it.
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We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
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I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.
