Colm Toibin Quotes
You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
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The long program sets the men apart from the boys.
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I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.
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He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
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If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
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You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.
