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Colm Toibin Quotes

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Space Reading Story Feel Trying Gay

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

God Trust Me Hearts Your Troubled

A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.

Work School People Find Out Artists

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

John Ratzenberger

Humor Uncomfortable Comedians Sure

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Beautiful Optimism Ugly Belief

I got to work with Rachel Dratch, and she just had such a funny, roll-with-it attitude when she would approach the stage and could turn anything into a gem.

Work Funny Attitude She Stage Turn

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

Me Cold Think Down Know Way

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

Think Problem Going Common Again

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.

Change I Can Adapt Fan Easily

I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Death Think Lift Spontaneous Normal

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

Father Relationship Someone Problem

I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.

People Find Know Sometimes Australia

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Knowledge Power Ignorance People Own

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