Claire Tomalin Quotes

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

Claire Tomalin

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• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Life
  • Finish
  • Winner

• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Worry

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Know
  • Day

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Star
  • Beginning

• A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Mother

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Yourself
  • Golf
  • Distance

• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Family

• Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Real
  • Summer
  • Season

• I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • City
  • Excellence

• I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Loved

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

• Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Life

• I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real