Claire Tomalin Quotes
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.
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The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.
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I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
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No matter what town you are in, there is some social order and a different yardstick to chart. In New York, people create things like schools and speaking languages and second homes.
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My life was a sort of series of random disasters.
