Colm Toibin Quotes

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

Jennie Garth

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Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.

Spike Milligan

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I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

Tory Lanez

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In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

Ron Jaworski

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Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

Miep Gies

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The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

Juan Goytisolo

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I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

Juicy J

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I can't stand the club scene.

Christine Taylor

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I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.

Chris Stapleton

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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

Chuck D

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A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Bob Dylan

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I like a good pompadour.

Brian Setzer

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