Colm Toibin Quotes

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeWritingSomeoneYouReadyPlay

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

Joan Collins

WorkBeautifulSkyCreativeSpeak

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

Jennifer Esposito

RoomSetScreamingEverywhere

I think it's weird that they're trying to make us be negative about 'Sex and the City'... Not HBO, but the press. Really, they're dying for us to say something negative about 'Sex and the City.'

Jennifer Konner

CityNegativeThinkWeirdTryingUs

I love Audrey Hepburn; I love those silhouettes and T-length skirts and stuff. They're just very classy. I like to mix that look with quirkiness, kind of like how Katy Perry has that quirkiness.

Megan Nicole

LoveLookClassyKindJustStuff

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

Jeff Lemire

LoveArtWalkPeopleLiteratureYou

At the heart of 'CBS News' is a group of inspiring, enterprising people led by the outstanding team of David Rhodes and Jeff Fager.

Steve Capus

HeartPeopleTeamNewsGroupLed

Maybe after my third album, I'll just go to uni. That would be really cool.

Sigrid

CoolGoJustWouldThirdAlbum

I'm not an unkind person, but by the same token, I'm not a people-pleaser.

Trudie Styler

PersonSameTokenUnkind

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

Bob Crosby

ResponsibilityBrotherMeThinkHis

The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

Wolfgang Schauble

MoneySmallFinancialLongLived

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

SmallKidDogsAlwaysAfraidAttack

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

Noel Redding

SmallThinkStrangersBandFirst

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