Colm Toibin Quotes

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RestStoryProblemYouGoNothing

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Joe Biden

RelationshipCloseReallyMike

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

Joan Collins

QueenAmericaDramaNiceMeanOrder

There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring. In the tactical area, I think I just have more than most other players.

Johan Cruyff

TrustPeopleMeThinkBetterYou

When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'

Jenny Lewis

ChildrenPeopleBabyYouWantAsk

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.

Robert Reich

TechnologyKnowledgeJobLearnFast

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

KnowledgeScienceKindDiscourse

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

Steven Van Zandt

GoodNameTraditionMeaningPersonal

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

Toni Collette

HeartMindBelieveImportantMore

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.

Ron Eglash

ArchitectureThinkDesignAmerican

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Ronnie Milsap

SchoolBlindInvolvedGovernor

I adore gelato; it's a pleasure I shared for years with my friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Monica Vitti

FriendYearsPleasureMy Friend

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

Miranda Kerr

WorkTimeFlyYouPilotHard

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