Colm Toibin Quotes

The best thing about New York is working late into the night. At 1 in the morning on a Saturday, to be still working, there's an immense satisfaction in being enclosed by it.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

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Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

Jean Piaget

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Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative.

John Sayles

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But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Sonny Rollins

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Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.

Ross Butler

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Twitter died when the company banned me from its platform. I know that sounds egotistical. But remember what I just said. I'm right about everything.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

Jason Biggs

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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

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I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

Brian Ferneyhough

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Maybe I'm a bit of a Luddite.

Bob Morley

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I want consumers to connect the dots, to go to any store and look at the label and connect the dots between buying cheap China products, which is better for the wallet, and all the other things we lose, like jobs.

Peter Navarro

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