Colm Toibin Quotes

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we've been given.

Jerry Lewis

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I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

Jeffrey Tambor

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It must be so nice to be a white male.

Ana Navarro

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While shooting in Uganda in 2011, the conservative evangelical pastors I was filming - the most ardent supporters of the country's now infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill - discovered that I myself am gay.

Roger Ross Williams

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I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

Rob Lowe

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Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

Mary J. Blige

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We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

Mitch McConnell

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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Josh Billings

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I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

Jasmine Guinness

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The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!

Debra Granik

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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Clarence Day

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