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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It is always impossible-he was conscious again with that strange clarity of mind-for a man to face his own death honestly. A man always continues to believe to the last moment of his life that something will intervene to save him.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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Some say he was a sailor who died away at seaSome say he was a prisoner who never was set freeLost upon the ocean he died there in the mistDreaming of a kissBitter Green they called her walking in the sunLoving everyone that she metBitter Green they called her waiting in the sunWaiting for someone to take her home
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
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Some of the sweetest spirits are housed in frail frames. Great spiritual strength is often developed by those with physical challenges precisely because they are challenged. Such individuals are entitled to all the blessings that God has in store for His faithful and obedient children.
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My life was a sort of series of random disasters.
