Claire Tomalin Quotes
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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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 it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
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Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.
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We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.
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Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
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The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
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Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
