Claire Tomalin Quotes
It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.Claire Tomalin
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
Samantha Morton -
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.
Ville Valo HIM -
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?
B. F. Skinner -
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.
Xavier Dolan
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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.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
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.
Patrick Stewart -
I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
Larry Brown -
I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
Kate Moss -
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
Kate Williams -
Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
Vanessa Bayer
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
Natalia Makarova -
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.
T. C. Boyle -
It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
Irvine Welsh
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I have a lot of faith in people.
John Lithgow -
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
David Christian -
Hero tales suggest the price of courage is beyond the ordinary budget. They tempt us to disown the common capacity of the human spirit to transcend normality.
Sam Keen -
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
Arthur Boyd -
I haven't met a woman without insecurities.
Lauren Conrad -
It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
Claire Tomalin