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.
Gabrielle Reece -
Stars arrive on their own timetable.
Cameron Crowe -
Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
Cara Delevingne -
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.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite -
I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
Kara Swisher -
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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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.
Dan Hicks -
I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
Harold Prince -
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
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.
Padgett Powell
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
Taylor Sheridan -
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Sam Ewing -
Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.
Yair Lapid
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Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.
Taslima Nasrin -
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Bill Hicks -
Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
Anand Mahindra -
My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.
Dustin Hoffman -
I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
Joanna Newsom -
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
Claire Tomalin