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Colm Toibin Quotes

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Book Think You Things Competing Get

To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

Work Time Creative Value People Me

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

Melissa Etheridge

Day Society Thought Now Minds Right

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Day Me Weather Wish You Sometimes

I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

Matthew Yglesias

Believe I Believe Parking Things

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

You Perfect Back Go Everything

Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time.

Ruthie Ann Miles

Time Genius Ahead Touch Matter Able

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

Art Brother People Dinner Wealth

I've always thought one of the tricks of being an actor for a long time is keeping yourself interested once you've figured out how to pay the rent.

Time Yourself Thought Long You Rent

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Always Sweaters Homemade Itchy

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.

Beautiful Childhood Others Some Very

My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

School Become First Rapper Radio

I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.

Time Someone Bad I Can Now Run

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