Colm Toibin Quotes

In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 30, 1955

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For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.

John Williams

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I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

Amanda McBroom

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I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.

Steven Shainberg

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Most of the time with video games, you're recording by yourself.

Roger Craig Smith

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Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

Rob Corddry

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I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.

Rose George

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I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

Jonathan Demme

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You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Bradley Whitford

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I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

Arnold Palmer

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In addition to the executive responsibility of handling and managing the government, the president has an important voice that sets the tone for much of our national discourse.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.

Ashton Sanders

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Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

Peter Diamandis

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