Colm Toibin Quotes

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Joe Rogan

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If I'm going to mix gold and silver, I make my accessories all match.

Jillian Hervey

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'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

Jennifer Egan

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There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.

Jeff Mangum

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I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

Ronnie Dunn

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In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.

Mike Quigley

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It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double cheeseburger, fries, and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labor at the minimum wage - indeed, in the long sweep of history, this represents a remarkable achievement.

Michael Pollan

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I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

Missy Elliott

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No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

Josiah Royce

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With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.

Winslow Homer

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Every woman adores a Fascist.

Sylvia Plath

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'Fortnite' is cartoony, if you want to use that word, and that's going to a good turn-on for parents when they see their kids playing a game like that.

Ninja

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