Colm Toibin Quotes

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Robert Kennedy

FitnessExcellenceStrongConfident

I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

Max Burns

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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Amanda Harlech

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Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Steve Toltz

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I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cats, West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, Wicked, you name it!

Michael Showalter

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My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

Lorrie Moore

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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

Don Rickles

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Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.

Chris Gardner

MoneyPeopleYouJust BecauseMean

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

Colin Firth

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I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift.

Claire Danes

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I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Ashley Wagner

GoodMusicGirlMeEvilFeel

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

William Shatner

TimeYouBe PreparedDownGoWill

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