Claire Tomalin Quotes
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else.Claire Tomalin
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
Octavia Spencer -
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
Yelawolf -
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov -
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
Natalie Massenet -
I look formidable.
Vin Diesel
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
Aaron Diehl -
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
B. D. Wong -
I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.
Rajneesh -
I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
Najib Mikati
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
Ziyi Zhang -
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
A. Lawrence Lowell -
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
Patrick O'Brian -
When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'
Omar Sy -
Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
Pat Conroy -
How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
Yolandi Visser
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The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
Jeremy Hardy -
When the attentions change / the jungle leaps in even the stones are split they rive
Charles Olson -
Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.
Gabriel Iglesias -
The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage.
Karl Marx -
You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
Ted Cruz -
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else.
Claire Tomalin