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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It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.
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It's real difficult to sing out in the elements at 2 in the morning in 35-degree weather while you're dancing in a sleeveless chiffon dress.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
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I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
