Claire Tomalin Quotes
It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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κόσμον μὲν ἀνδρὸς οὔτιν᾽ ἂν τρέσαιμ᾽ ἐγώ,οὐδ᾽ ἑλκοποιὰ γίγνεται τὰ σήματαλόφοι δὲ κώδων τ᾽ οὐ δάκνουσ᾽ ἄνευ δορός.
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It's deeper than the music when it comes to me and Mustard. He's like a big brother, and I'm so thankful to have a mentor like him to advise me. Even though he gives me a lot of creative control, I always go to him like, 'Do you like this?' It's so cool that it's always a collaborative effort. He never makes me feel pressured or anything.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.
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It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
