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.
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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.
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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.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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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.
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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.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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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.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
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I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
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The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity.
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Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
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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.
