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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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 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've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.
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It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
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When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I don't like candy bars. I eat the big rectangular bars. You know - anything between 85 and 50 percent cocoa.
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It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
