Claire Tomalin Quotes

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

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• I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Me
  • Virtue
  • Hard

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Financial
  • More
  • Accountants

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • House
  • Really
  • Many

• I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • American
  • English

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Working

• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Different
  • Step
  • Admire

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Writing
  • Lost
  • Down

• When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Attention
  • Kid
  • Pressure

• I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • World
  • School
  • Done

• If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Believe
  • You
  • Yourself

• Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Thought

• An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Independent
  • Far

• I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • Why
  • Sports
  • Dance

• Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Mercy

• You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Question
  • Beginning

• While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Humor

• If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

  

  Gerald Weinberg
  • Quality
  • Meet
  • Requirement

• I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

  

  Claire Tomalin
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  • Writing
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