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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Their officers are working 20 hours a day, and they were just worn out, ... They wanted to have some relief for their officers.
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After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.
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You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
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TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes, .. And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'.
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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.
