Colm Toibin Quotes
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.Colm Toibin
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
Fleur East -
I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
Ulrich Beck -
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith -
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison -
'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
Yara Shahidi -
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
Yanis Varoufakis -
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
Lamar Alexander -
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. Konrath -
People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
Nadia Comaneci -
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
Harriet Martineau
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus -
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana -
I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
Olivia Wilde -
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba -
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara -
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.
Jane D. Hull -
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.
Derek Walcott -
Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
Daley Thompson -
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.
Anita Ekberg -
We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots -
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.
Colm Toibin