Colm Toibin Quotes

Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterThinkDoneDialogueSee

I'm not a complicated person.

Jessie Ware

ComplicatedPerson

The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.

Andre Benjamin

WorldNeedCompanyClothingFunk

My mom is a yoga instructor: 100% black with dreadlocks.

Meghan Markle

MomBlackYogaInstructor

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Andy Rooney

BusinessMenManDifferencesYoung

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

Stanley Clarke

ArtPeopleEasyYouCreatingNow

We shouldn't be bailing out insurance companies under ObamaCare.

Steve Scalise

InsuranceOutObamacareCompanies

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Simon Newcomb

FamilyBeginningMeWashingtonMiles

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

Tori Amos

MeControlWillHandBendCompany

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard

WorthTwiceIdeaOnceHaving

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

Mary Gauthier

FatherMotherMeStoryKnowShe

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

Miranda Lambert

MusicFirstWhereDidTalented

Don't peak in high school.

Lizzy Caplan

SchoolHigh SchoolHighPeak

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