Colm Toibin Quotes

I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

Jerry Lewis

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I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Johannes Kepler

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Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.

John Battelle

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I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.

Anderson Paak

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I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

Robyn Carr

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We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.

Mitchell Zuckoff

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The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

Louise Nurding

SonHandsKnowWantTeachersCount

The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around.

Lloyd Blankfein

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We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.

Jared Polis

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The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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'Cuckoo's Nest' came along, and I was cast, and that was great, but it was my first film, so I felt like I was kind of walking around on the set as Walk-On A.

Christopher Lloyd

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It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

Connie Stevens

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