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.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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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.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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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.
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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.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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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.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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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.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.
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Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.
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People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'
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Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?
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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.
