Claire Tomalin Quotes

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

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• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • She
  • You
  • Feeling

• Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • Create
  • Relationships

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Place

• To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Rock
  • Living
  • Complain

• I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Driving

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Moment
  • Memorable
  • Boston

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Inspired

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Good
  • School

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the ring for three rounds against a top amateur boxer at a much faster pace, and they'll lose a fight, and how bad is that going to make them look?

  Mandy Bujold
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Heart

• High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • Country
  • High
  • Value

• In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Bad