Colm Toibin Quotes

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkHappenFictionWellHappens

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

John Berger

LifeMeThinkInterestingMy Life

I was on Twitter right in the first couple months that it was out.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

FirstRightOutTwitterMonths

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

Melissa Rosenberg

MindMoonWritingWorldYouKnow

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

FinanceRewardIntellectualTaxes

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Simon Newcomb

BirdFlySpeedWillSeeNatural

I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'

Trieste Kelly Dunn

SmileFreedomPressureBudgetYou

So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse.

Jonathan Van Ness

YourselfBetterFeelYouGrooming

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Jose Bergamin

DecisionYouMadeHesitateOnce

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

Jon Jones

CollegeMeWrestlingMoreGoing

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

Christa B. Allen

WomanBetterRoyaltyPrincessPlay

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

Colleen Haskell

YouSaySomebodyMovieLearned

I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet.

Sebastian Thrun

LoveMyselfUnderstandEverything

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