Colm Toibin Quotes
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.Colm Toibin
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
Patrick Duffy -
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
Eddie Redmayne -
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Finn Wittrock -
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford -
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni -
I've had to be tough my whole life.
Karen Handel
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
Forest Whitaker -
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James -
It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
Naftali Bennett -
I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
Mahesh Babu -
When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
Edgar Wright -
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
Oriana Fallaci
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A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini -
There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
Pat Conroy -
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Jack Prelutsky -
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner -
I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
Rachael Ray -
As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
Inbee Park
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The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.
Anthony de Mello -
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Kate Millett -
Aja Naomi is one of my good friends.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.
Chaim Potok -
I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.
SZA -
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.
Colm Toibin