Claire Tomalin Quotes

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

Claire Tomalin

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• I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Things
  • Really

• In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Know
  • Cinema

• We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Single

• I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Damage
  • Treatment
  • Nor

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• I've managed stations.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Stations

• I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Writing
  • Part
  • Hotel

• Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Experience
  • Myself
  • Years

• I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Practice
  • Better

• In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Summer
  • Short
  • Feet

• Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Children
  • You
  • Hug

• Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • May
  • Father
  • Voice

• I just want to continue the way I am going.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Way
  • Continue

• For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creative

• I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Find

• I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Free

• My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Born
  • Grandparents

• I am the angel of reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Door
  • Angel

• With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • Lost
  • Confidence
  • Bible

• Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs. It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where I could forgive Anthony. It was not an easy choice in any way. But I made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage. That was a decision I made for me, for our son and for our family.

  

  Huma Abedin

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

  

  Nick Rahall
  • Faith
  • Prayer
  • Instrument

• Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

  

  Claire Tomalin