Colm Toibin Quotes
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I am a just man.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get onto a stage again for maybe two, three, four, five months, or maybe a year, then suddenly you'll wake up and feel like you've got to do it again. It's in the blood, and I never say never.
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I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.
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I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.
