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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I did two or three plays every summer.
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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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Don't talk it, walk it.
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I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.
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When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.
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Your Dollar is your only Word,The wrath of it your only fear.You build it altars tall enoughTo make you see, but your are blind;You cannot leave it long enoughTo look before you or behind.
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I always say what I think... I'm not brave - I just have no filter.
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Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
