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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Some men enjoy the constant strifeOf days with work and worry rife,But that is not my dream of life:I think such men are crazy.For me, a life with worries few,A job of nothing much to do,Just pelf enough to see me through:I fear that I am lazy.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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I would like to have a more social life than I have.
