Colm Toibin Quotes

The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to bring the audience a good distance before that. Part of that is allowing comic moments to occur. I had been afraid of that - that once the audience started laughing in the play, they would never stop.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodTimeTrustMomentsStopPlay

I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

Joe Morton

DoingLongIslandUniversityStarted

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

Joey Alexander

LearnDoingStudentAlways

I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.

Jean-Claude Juncker

LifeWaveMy LifeIndependentBecome

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

Tori Amos

PeopleYouDefendLeaveWho

The Buckeye Build will have a lasting impact on Cleveland, and it is an honor to be a part of it.

Rob Portman

ImpactHonorBuildWillCleveland

It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.

Mary Lou Retton

PeopleMeWeirdAmericaNewNeed

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

Miuccia Prada

AgeHateYouJust BecauseSomething

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

Lisa Ling

GirlStrongDeterminedRaise

There are times when you should listen to what people say about you, but also a lot of times you just don't need to listen so much. Don't worry so much and just go. Unless you're, like, in danger, and then don't. And then run, girl.

Jonathan Van Ness

GirlPeopleWorryYouGoRun

I wasn't 'gifted' in the way that Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns or somebody like that is gifted, in that they got the physical attributes and so forth.

Dean Ambrose

WayGiftedGotSomebodyLikeRoman

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

Christy Mathewson

EarlySayBoyBallBeginPlaying

I want to live a normal life - drive my kids to school, have tons of animals running around, be barefoot and pregnant. I want all that.

Brooklyn Decker

LifeLiveSchoolDriveAnimalsWant

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