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
- Los Angeles
- Angeles
- Los
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

Eddie Redmayne
- People
- Myself
- Walk
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
- Good
- Different
- Better
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

Harrison Ford
- People
- Kids
- Influence
On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

Vince Cable
- Achieve
- Anger
- Apology
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston
- Hands
- Mountain
- Kitchen