Colm Toibin Quotes

People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveHateSilencePeopleMeWriting

People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.

Joe Kennedy III

CommunityPeopleCareLookWillOut

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

Jesse L. Martin

ConfidenceDecisionBestMeKind

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Melinda Gates

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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Anatole France

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Besides finding a great place to stay, it's important for me to find at least one cultural destination to visit, other than that, I don't like to plan too much. I like to suss out the situation when I get on the ground and then go!

Megalyn Echikunwoke

GreatMeDestinationPlanFinding

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Anna Freud

LiveMeJudgeEnjoyWithoutBeing

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

DemocracySayMean

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

Steve Schirripa

LifeHollywoodMy OwnBuyOwnFar

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Ronald Reagan

DepressionMoneyJobYouLoseYours

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

ActingKnowRightJustKnewHow

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.

DJ Khaled

PassionPainPeopleMeFeelGo

Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

Dick Cavett

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