Claire Tomalin Quotes
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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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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Music is such a part of my soul.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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Because he (Elton John) is pushing his face in all the time, and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested, he's incredibly rich, he should just go away, and he's just hoisting his problems onto everybody and working them out publicly and...I've said enough.
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Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
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I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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I would like to have a more social life than I have.
