Colm Toibin Quotes

I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.

Colm Toibin

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Author Biography

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

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I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Jeanne Calment

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I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

Tom Cavanagh

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Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

RM

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Which team in the world would not like to have a player of the quality of Coutinho?

Roberto Firmino

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My obligation is to the movie audiences.

Ron Howard

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You can have a coach for five or six years, and eventually, that coach has so little new to say. So get somebody else to give a different point of view. Somebody will see something I don't see and vice versa. You evolve with your game and your coaches.

Martina Navratilova

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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.

Lucy Punch

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I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

Jared Leto

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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.

Dinaw Mengestu

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